Marine Zooplankton Identification Guide for Southeastern Australia

An interactive, fully illustrated guide for identifying major zooplankton species in southeastern Australian waters. The tool is a collaboration between the University of Tasmania's Marine Research Laboratories and School of Zoology and the Australian Antarctic Division. The full contents are also available on a free CD-ROM.

Use Cases

• Species identification of marine zooplankton based on illustrated guides.
• Educational training in marine biology using an interactive online tool.
• Research on Antarctic and Australian marine ecosystems based on documented species.

Strengths

• Provides a fully illustrated means of identification.
• Result of collaboration between a major university and a national Antarctic research division.
• Available in both online HTML and free CD-ROM formats.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

University of Tasmania (Marine Research Laboratories, School of Zoology) and Australian Antarctic Division.

Collection Method

Collaborative research project, likely involving specimen collection and taxonomic illustration.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 21:00:43.762773; freshness should be verified.

Geography

South eastern Australia and Antarctic regions.