Global scale surface meso-plankton dataset collected with Manta Net and imaged with ZooScan during the Tara Pacific Expedition
Citation
Mériguet Z, Lombard F, Bourdin G, Jalabert L, Caray--Counil L, Maury J, Elineau A, Luiza Pedrotti M, Gorsky G, The Tara Pacific Consortium (2026). Global scale surface meso-plankton dataset collected with Manta Net and imaged with ZooScan during the Tara Pacific Expedition. Version 1.4. EcoTaxa. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.data-terra.org/resource?r=tara-pac-zooscan-manta&v=1.4. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8960
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Mériguet, Zoé ;
Lombard, Fabien Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.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 sampled using the Manta (300-micron mesh size) at sea surface. See https://doi.org/10.17882/102537 for more details. Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output Scope Themes: Biology > Plankton > Mesoplankton Keywords: Marine/Coastal · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Environment · Geoscientific Information · Global · Habitats and biotopes · Imaging · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Plankton · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Acartiidae Sars G.O., 1903 · Actinopterygii · Anthozoa · Appendicularia · Bivalvia · Calanidae Dana, 1846 · Candaciidae Giesbrecht, 1892-1893 · Cavoliniidae J. E. Gray, 1850 (1815) · Centropagidae Giesbrecht, 1892 · Cephalopoda · Corycaeidae Dana, 1846 · Diphyidae Quoy & Gaimard, 1827 · Echinoidea · Eucalanidae Giesbrecht, 1893 · Euchaetidae Giesbrecht, 1893 · Hydrozoa · Insecta · Ophiuroidea · Ostracoda · Scyphozoa · Thaliacea Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: -176,6277; MinLat: -27,3575 - MaxLong: 178,9415; MaxLat: 45,1974 [WGS84] Temporal coverage
30 August 2016 - 5 July 2018 Taxonomic coverage
Acartiidae Sars G.O., 1903 [WoRMS]
Actinopterygii [WoRMS]
Anthozoa [WoRMS]
Appendicularia [WoRMS]
Bivalvia [WoRMS]
Calanidae Dana, 1846 [WoRMS]
Candaciidae Giesbrecht, 1892-1893 [WoRMS]
Cavoliniidae J. E. Gray, 1850 (1815) [WoRMS]
Centropagidae Giesbrecht, 1892 [WoRMS]
Cephalopoda [WoRMS]
Corycaeidae Dana, 1846 [WoRMS]
Diphyidae Quoy & Gaimard, 1827 [WoRMS]
Echinoidea [WoRMS]
Eucalanidae Giesbrecht, 1893 [WoRMS]
Euchaetidae Giesbrecht, 1893 [WoRMS]
Hydrozoa [WoRMS]
Insecta [WoRMS]
Ophiuroidea [WoRMS]
Ostracoda [WoRMS]
Scyphozoa [WoRMS]
Thaliacea [WoRMS]
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Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
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Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2025-12-03
Metadatarecord created: 2025-12-08
Information last updated: 2026-05-12
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