Global scale surface micro-plankton dataset collected with Bongo nets and imaged with FlowCam during the Tara Pacific Expedition

Sampling event
Latest version published by EcoTaxa on Mar 11, 2026 EcoTaxa

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Description

The Tara Pacific expedition sampled differents ecosystems of the oceans during a two-year expedition (2016-2018), collecting environmental data and surface plankton of Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, from viruses to metazoans, on board the 36-metre Tara Schooner. Mesoplankton and plastics were collected with the Bongo nets by scuba divers using an underwater scooter. Samples were taken from the surface, near reefs and lagoons in the Pacific. See https://doi.org/10.17882/102694 and https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2761-2025 for more details.

Data Records

The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 68 records.

2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Event (core)
68
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
4829
Occurrence 
1587

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Lombard F, Mériguet Z, Nathaniel K, Bourdin G, Gorsky G, Karp-Boss L, The Tara Pacific Consortium (2026). Global scale surface micro-plankton dataset collected with Bongo nets and imaged with FlowCam during the Tara Pacific Expedition. Version 1.2. EcoTaxa. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.data-terra.org/resource?r=tara-pac-flowcam-bongo&v=1.2

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is EcoTaxa. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 71cd810e-64f8-486f-b032-6c63cedb5029.  EcoTaxa publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF France.

Keywords

Plankton; Imaging; EcoTaxa; Samplingevent

Contacts

Fabien Lombard
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche
FR
Zoé Mériguet
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche
FR
Kristan Nathaniel
  • Originator
School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04401, USA
US
Guillaume Bourdin
  • Originator
School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04401, USA
US
Gaby Gorsky
  • Originator
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche
FR
Lee Karp-Boss
  • Originator
School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04401, USA
US
The Tara Pacific Consortium

Geographic Coverage

See coordinates

Bounding Coordinates South West [-27.085, -171.843], North East [27.06, 179.071]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Annelida, Ciliophora, Cyanobacteria, Echinodermata, Foraminifera, Mollusca
Subphylum Crustacea
Class Acantharia, Bacillariophyceae, Cyanophyceae, Dinophyceae, Polychaeta
Subclass Copepoda, Coscinodiscophycidae
Order Asterolamprales, Calanoida, Cyclopoida, Nassellaria, Peridiniales, Spumellaria, Thalassionematales
Suborder Tintinnina
Family Codonellidae, Corycaeidae, Oncaeidae, Pyrocystaceae, Rhabdosphaeraceae, Rhizosoleniaceae, Undellidae
Genus Amphitetras, Amphorides, Asterionella, Bacteriastrum, Biddulphia, Chaetoceros, Cladopyxis, Cylindrotheca, Cyttarocylis, Dactyliosolen, Diatoma, Dictyocha, Dictyocysta, Ditylum, Epiplocylis, Eucampia, Eutintinnus, Guinardia, Hemiaulus, Hemidiscus, Lacrymaria, Licmophora, Metacylis, Micracanthodinium, Neoceratium, Odontella, Ornithocercus, Oxytoxum, Phalacroma, Planktoniella, Podolampas, Poroecus, Protoperidinium, Pseudo-nitzschia, Pyrophacus, Rhabdonella, Rhabdonellopsis, Rhizosolenia, Richelia, Steenstrupiella, Striatella, Synedra, Trichodesmium, Vorticella
Species Hemidiscus cuneiformis, Ornithocercus magnificus, Ornithocercus steinii, Tripos candelabrum, Tripos furca, Tripos fusus, Tripos pentagonus

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2016-09-07 / 2019-09-03

Additional Metadata

Acknowledgements
Maintenance Description periodic review of origin data
Alternative Identifiers 71cd810e-64f8-486f-b032-6c63cedb5029
https://ipt.data-terra.org/resource?r=tara-pac-flowcam-bongo