Curated occurrence records for native millipedes in Tasmania, Australia

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by Biodiversity Data Journal on Aug 15, 2025 Biodiversity Data Journal
Publication date:
15 August 2025
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Description

Version 1 of the dataset contains 10080 occurrence records for native Australian millipedes in Tasmania, Australia. The records in the dataset are "curated" in the sense that I have confidence in the identity and collection details of the 10080 specimen lots. I identified 97% of the lots myself, and almost all the remainder were identified by original describers, specialists or experienced Tasmanian collectors. About 64% of the lots are my own or joint collections, with curated collection details as described in Mesibov (2021; https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e70463) or added subsequently (I resumed field work in 2022). Collection details for the other 36% of the lots were checked as described in Mesibov (2013; https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.293.5111) or through correspondence with individual collectors.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence 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 10,080 records.

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Versions

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Biodiversity Data Journal. 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: 9b37920c-8d47-41a0-8f90-064b792b6a15.  Biodiversity Data Journal publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Australia; Tasmania; Diplopoda; Polyxenida; Polyzoniida; Sphaerotheriida; Spirostreptida; Chordeumatida; Polydesmida; Specimen

Contacts

Robert Mesibov
  • User
Robert Mesibov
  • User
7315 West Ulverstone
Tasmania
AU
Robert Mesibov
  • User

Geographic Coverage

Tasmania and its outlying islands Coordinates: Latitude -39.2280 to -43.6094, longitude 143.9031 to 148.4589

Bounding Coordinates South West [-44, 143], North East [-39, 149]

Taxonomic Coverage

The dataset covers native Australian millipedes collected in Tasmania in the orders Polyxenida, Polyzoniida, Sphaerotheriida, Spirostreptida, Chordeumatida and Polydesmida. No other native orders have so far been found in Tasmania, and the dataset excludes introduced millipedes in the orders Julida and Polydesmida.

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1843-01-01 / 2025-06-25

Additional Metadata

Maintenance Description Between 50 and 100 new occurrence records are added each year to the privately maintained version of this dataset. The publicly available version will be periodically updated to add these records and to correct errors.
Alternative Identifiers 9b37920c-8d47-41a0-8f90-064b792b6a15
https://ipt.pensoft.net/resource?r=tasmilrecs-2025-07-06