Observations of Deep-Sea Coral and Sponge Occurrences from the NOAA National Deep-Sea Coral and Sponge Database, 1842-Present, version 20250903-0 (NCEI Accession 0145037)

biological data CORAL CORAL - CENSUS CORAL - COLONY SIZE CORAL - SPECIES IDENTIFICATION Fish FISH - CORAL REEF FISH SPECIES MACROINVERTEBRATE CENSUS SPECIES IDENTIFICATION SPONGE SPECIES IDENTIFICATION TAXONOMIC CODE corer dredge net sediment sampler - grab trawl video camera benthic biological in situ survey - biological survey - coral reef survey - swimmer/diver trawl visual observation NOAA Office of Habitat Conservation Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program (DSCRTP) Adriatic Sea Aegean Sea Alboran Sea Andaman Sea or Burma Sea Arabian Sea Arafura Sea Arctic Ocean Bali Sea Banda Sea Bass Strait Bay of Bengal Bay of Biscay (Golfe de Gascogne) Bay of Fundy Beaufort Sea Bering Sea Bismarck Sea Caribbean Sea Celebes Sea (Sulawesi Sea and Mindanao Sea) Ceram Sea or Seram Sea Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Chukchi Sea Coastal Waters of Alabama Coastal Waters of Florida Coastal Waters of Louisiana Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia Coastal Waters of Texas Coral Sea Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary Davis Strait East China Sea (Tung Hai) Equatorial Atlantic Ocean Equatorial Pacific Ocean Flores Sea Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary Great Australian Bight Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Greenland Sea (including Iceland Sea and North Greenland Sea) Gulf of Aden Gulf of Alaska Gulf of California Gulf of Guinea Gulf of Maine Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Oman Gulf of Panama Gulf of Thailand Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Halmahera Sea Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary Indian Ocean Japan Sea Labrador Sea Laccadive Sea Malacca Straits Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin Mid-Atlantic Bight Molucca Sea Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Mozambique Channel National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa North American Coastline-North North American Coastline-South North Atlantic Ocean North Pacific Ocean Northeast Pacific Ocean (limit-180) Northwest Atlantic Ocean (limit-40 W) Northwestern Passages Norwegian Sea Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Persian Gulf (Gulf of Iran), Strait of Hormuz Philippine Sea Prince William Sound (Gulf of Alaska) Puget Sound Red Sea Rio de la Plata Rose Atoll Marine National Monument San Diego Bay Sawu Sea Sea of Okhotsk Selat Makasar (Makasar Strait) Solomon Sea South Atlantic Ocean South China Sea (Nan Hai) South Pacific Ocean Southeast Pacific Ocean (limit-140 W) Southern Ocean Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Strait of Gibraltar Sulu Sea Tasman Sea Teluk Bone (Gulf of Bone) Teluk Tomini (Gulf of Tomini) Timor Sea Tyrrhenian Sea West Coast - 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