Occurrence

Visual sightings from Song of the Whale 1993-2013

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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.

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Versions

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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
FGDC Metadata http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1158/xml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Oliver Boisseau
  • Owner
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Primary contact
Song of the Whale team, MCR International
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
NC
US
ACCOBAMS and WDCS
  • Originator
The Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS) and Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS)

Geographic Coverage

North Atlantic Ocean,Mediterranean Sea

Bounding Coordinates South West [-36.001, -74.745], North East [68.094, 138.447]

Taxonomic Coverage

Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Kingdom Animalia
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

Project Data

No Description available

Title Visual sightings from Song of the Whale 1993-2013
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Oliver Boisseau
  • Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_1158
Collection Identifier zd_1158
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Purpose Not available
Alternative Identifiers http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1158