Description
Original provider: International Fund for Animal Welfare, Song of the Whale Team Dataset credits: Oliver Boisseau, Marine Conservation Research International Supplemental information: [2020-09-30] The following invalid species names were corrected according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Turtles: Testudines (173749) => Testudines (948936) The databases from 1993 to 2013 were merged into one dataset. Attributes recorded in these databases may differ. Since GPS data would become too huge to effectively visualize online, every 10th record was extracted. All GPS data can be requested. Environmental attributes were recorded less frequently than the GPS data and not all GPS records get environmental attributes attached.
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 7,027 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Boisseau, O. 2014. Visual sightings from Song of the Whale 1993-2013. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1158) on yyyy-mm-dd.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 2247b821-1216-4933-8a6e-cd8b3457e49d. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Sea turtles,Visual Sighting,Vessel; Observation; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1158 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1158/xml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
- Owner ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Metadata Provider ●
- Distributor
- Originator
Geographic Coverage
North Atlantic Ocean,Mediterranean Sea
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-36.001, -74.745], North East [68.094, 138.447] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Subclass | Elasmobranchii (cartilaginous fishes) |
| Order | Testudines (Turtles), Cetacea (cetaceans) |
| Suborder | Odontoceti (toothed whales) |
| Family | Cheloniidae (Sea Turtles), Delphinidae (dolphins), Phocidae (earless seals) |
| Genus | Globicephala (pilot whales), Stenella (spinner dolphins), Balaenoptera (baleen whales), Lagenorhynchus (white-beaked dolphins) |
| Species | Arctocephalus forsteri (Australasian fur seal), Cetorhinus maximus (basking shark), Mesoplodon densirostris (Blainville's Beaked Whale), Prionace glauca (blue shark), Balaenoptera musculus (Blue Whale), Tursiops truncatus (Common Bottlenose Dolphin), Balaenoptera brydei (Bryde's whale), Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked Common Dolphin), Phoca vitulina (Harbor Seal), Ziphius cavirostris (Cuvier's Beaked Whale), Kogia sima (Dwarf Sperm Whale), Pseudorca crassidens (False Killer Whale), Balaenoptera physalus (Fin Whale), Lagenodelphis hosei (Fraser's Dolphin), Chelonia mydas (Green Sea Turtle), Halichoerus grypus (Atlantic gray seal), Phocoena phocoena (Harbor Porpoise), Cystophora cristata (Hooded Seal), Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback Whale), Orcinus orca (Killer Whale), Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback Sea Turtle), Caretta caretta (Loggerhead Sea Turtle), Peponocephala electra (Melon-headed Whale), Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Minke Whale), Monachus monachus (Mediterranean Monk Seal), Hyperoodon ampullatus (Northern bottlenose whale), Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic Right Whale), Globicephala melas (Long-finned Pilot Whale), Globicephala macrorhynchus (Short-finned Pilot Whale), Feresa attenuata (Pygmy Killer Whale), Kogia breviceps (Pygmy Sperm Whale), Grampus griseus (Risso's Dolphin), Steno bredanensis (Rough-toothed Dolphin), Balaenoptera borealis (Sei Whale), Tasmacetus shepherdi (Shepherd's Beaked Whale), Physeter macrocephalus (Sperm Whale), Stenella longirostris (Spinner Dolphin), Stenella frontalis (Atlantic Spotted Dolphin), Stenella attenuata (Pantropical Spotted Dolphin), Stenella coeruleoalba (Striped Dolphin), Mola mola (ocean sunfish), Alopias vulpinus, Rhincodon typus (whale shark), Lagenorhynchus albirostris (White-beaked Dolphin) |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1993-06-12 / 2013-09-26 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Visual sightings from Song of the Whale 1993-2013 |
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| Funding | NA |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Owner
Sampling Methods
NA
| Study Extent | NA |
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Method step description:
- NA
Collection Data
| Collection Name | zd_1158 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_1158 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Purpose | Not available |
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| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1158 |