Cnidarian of the Iranian parts of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman

The growth rate of marine biodiversity knowledge among Indian Ocean countries is not uniform, which is due to the lack and asymmetric growth of human, institutional, and technical capabilities. Biodiversity data in the Middle East marine environments (the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Oman, and the Persian Gulf) are scarce and are generally focused on larger taxa, while groups like sponges, ctenophores, octocorals, polychaetes, and tunicates are poorly known. On the other hand, most of the species diversity information of the region came from coral reef ecosystems, especially from the Red Sea. High maritime activities in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman as the major waterways for oil and gas transport and the lack of a documented database on total taxa diversity require greater attention for the biodiversity of these environments. Therefore, there is an urgent need to extract, standardize, and evaluate these biodiversity data. To fill a part of the gap, the Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science (INIOAS) was officially selected as a regional OBIS node in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman (PEGO-OBIS) Then, a project (project grant number: 392-011-05) was conducted entitled Gathering, standardization/digitization and interpretation of existing biological data of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman based on OBIS scheme.
the presence Cnidarian occurrence data is part of the above project

印度洋沿岸国家的海洋生物多样性认知增长速率并不均衡，这源于人力、机构与技术能力的匮乏及不均衡发展。中东海洋环境（包括红海、亚丁湾、阿拉伯海、阿曼湾及波斯湾）的生物多样性数据较为稀缺，且研究多聚焦于大型分类群；而海绵动物、栉水母、八放珊瑚、多毛类环节动物及被囊动物等类群的相关认知则极为不足。另一方面，该区域的物种多样性信息大多来自珊瑚礁生态系统，尤以红海区域为主。波斯湾与阿曼湾作为油气运输的核心航道，海洋活动频繁，且目前缺乏总分类群多样性的建档数据库，因此这些海域的生物多样性亟待加强关注。因此，亟需对现有生物多样性数据进行提取、标准化与评估。为填补部分研究空白，伊朗海洋与大气科学国家研究所（INIOAS）正式被选为波斯湾与阿曼湾区域海洋生物地理信息系统（Ocean Biogeographic Information System，OBIS）节点（PEGO-OBIS）。随后开展了一项编号为392-011-05的项目，课题名称为"基于OBIS框架的波斯湾与阿曼湾现有生物数据收集、标准化/数字化与解译"。刺胞动物出现数据的收录是上述项目的研究内容之一。