http://ipt.vliz.be/nmdis/resource?r=dy125-31 Chunsheng Wang Second Institute of Oceanography,SOA reasercher CHANG Liu 617895838@qq.com 2021-07-19 eng NMDIS works together with Second Institute of Oceanography,SOA on gathering megafauna data during research cruises in COMRA's contract area in 2013. Samples were collected using diving gear and camera system and fixed by using Formalin.All collected data are processed, quality controlled, and provided with metadata for stations in a common workflow, and a common set of parameters with preferred and standardised units is determined and stored. Quality control includes logic tests and value range tests. megafauna GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. Northern Boundary of sampling area 10.02°N Southern Boundary of sampling area 9.84°N Eastern Boundary of sampling area 154.28°W Western Boundary of sampling area 154.57°W -154.57 -154.28 10.02 9.84 2013-08-07 2013-08-12 phylum Porifera phylum Cnidaria phylum Foraminifera phylum Echinordermata phylum Mollusca phylum CHORDATA phylum Arthropoda unkown Chang Liu National Marine Data and Information Service of China (NMDIS) Data Analyst 2021-07-19T11:36:21.290+02:00 dataset NMDIS. (2021). Abundance of Megafauna in COMRA's contract area in 2013