2f606b39d32ea58830a1bd405b92af01 English dataset DASSH, The Archive for Marine Species and Habitat Data 01752 426237 dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk pointOfContact 2025-07-16 MEDIN 3.1.2 EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry 2021-01-06 revision WGS 84 2022 Société Jersiaise, first sighting of Berghia coerulescens in the British Isles 2025-07-16 publication 2022-08-08 revision 2022-08-08 creation DASSHDT00000498 https://www.dassh.ac.uk The sea slug species Berghia coerulescens was found on the 8th August in Jersey (near the centre of a gully that runs through Les Ecrehous reef) along with an egg mass; the first of this species to be spotted in the British Isles. This was sighted and recorded by Nick Jouault (cc'd in) of the Société Jersiaise and then the sighting has been confirmed by expert Bernard Picton. Nicolas Jouault Sochi State University of recreation and tourism dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk owner DASSH, The Archive for Marine Species and Habitat Data Data Manager 01752 426237 dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk custodian Nicolas Jouault Sochi State University of recreation and tourism dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk originator DASSH, The Archive for Marine Species and Habitat Data Data Manager 01752 426237 dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk distributor notPlanned Marine Environmental Data and Information Network MEDIN metadata record availability 2025-08-05 revision NDGO0005 NDGO0005 2025-08-05 revision Species distribution GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2021-09-28 revision Seabed photography SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2021-09-28 revision Occasional/Ad Hoc species monitoring M06 - MEDIN monitoring activity categories 2013-08-22 revision otherRestrictions Open Access otherRestrictions Open Government Licence - https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ English 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 biota geoscientificInformation oceans -2.0000 -1.9000 49.2000 49.3000 SeaVox salt and freshwater body gazetteer 2021-01-06 creation English Channel Charting Progress 2 Sea Areas 2021-01-06 creation Western Channel and Celtic Sea ICES Rectangles 2021-01-06 creation 27E7 ICES Statistical Areas 2021-01-06 creation VIIe 2022-08-08 2022-08-08 SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2021-01-06 revision benthic boundary layer Delimited https://doi.org/10.17031/63cfe7bf2ff1e DOI link A link to the web service or dataset download dataset MEDIN data guideline for ad-hoc sightings and non-effort or quantitative based visual surveys of marine life 2018-10-08 publication See the referenced specification Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 publication This data was an ad-hoc sighting made by Nick Jouault of the 2022 Société Jersiaise. It is the first sighting of Berghia coerulescens in the British Isles. The sighting has been confirmed by expert Bernard Picton. This data has been reviewed against the DASSH Quality Assessment Criteria (http://doi.org/10.17031/64ccec5c7ba72) and been categorised as medium quality.