Description
Original provider: Amy Whitt Dataset credits: Amy Whitt Abstract: There has been very little research on marine mammals in Cuban waters. Much of the information on marine mammals in this region is buried in historical and gray literature. In order to provide a comprehensive account of marine mammal occurrence in Cuba’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), we reviewed and verified 659 published and unpublished sighting, stranding, capture, and tagging records. Eighteen extant species and four genera have confirmed records for Cuban EEZ waters. This includes 17 species of cetaceans (three baleen whales and 14 toothed whales) and one sirenian species. An additional 11 cetacean species and one extant pinniped species have been reported, but not confirmed, or may have the potential to occur in Cuban waters. Historical records of the Caribbean monk seal (Monachus tropicalis) are documented in Cuba; however, this species is now considered extinct. The only two species that are seen regularly and considered common in Cuban nearshore waters are the common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) and the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus). Supplemental information: [2018-04-16] Irregular date of 2069-11-09 was corrected to 1969-11-09. The temporal precision varies among records and most of the records do not have times (except those from satellite tag detections). Some of the lat/long had to be estimated because exact locations were not available. For each record, there is a note describing the locations that are exact. As for the estimated lat/long, we estimated some of these just by finding the lat/long of the general location that was mentioned with the record. For some others, we georeferenced the coordinates from old figures of sightings/strandings since the raw data were not available.
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 675 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
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Whitt, A. 2015. Marine mammal records of Cuba. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1190) on yyyy-mm-dd.
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. 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: 28bf3cf9-3d61-4548-8a73-9a0423e45896. 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,Visual Sighting,Various,Strandings,Sightings,Captures; Observation; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1190 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1190/xml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Caribbean,Cuba
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [19, -86.746], North East [25.05, -73.567] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Order | Cetacea (cetaceans), Cetacea (cetaceans), Cetacea (cetaceans), Cetacea (cetaceans) |
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| Suborder | Caniformia (pinnipeds) |
| Family | Delphinidae (dolphins), Delphinidae (dolphins) |
| Genus | Balaenoptera (baleen whales), Globicephala (pilot whales), Kogia (pygmy sperm whales), Stenella (spinner dolphins), Mesoplodon (beaked whales), Balaenoptera (baleen whales) |
| Species | Stenella frontalis (Atlantic Spotted Dolphin), Mesoplodon densirostris (Blainville's Beaked Whale), Tursiops truncatus (Common Bottlenose Dolphin), Balaenoptera brydei (Bryde's whale), Monachus tropicalis (Caribbean Monk Seal), Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Minke Whale), Ziphius cavirostris (Cuvier's Beaked Whale), Kogia sima (Dwarf Sperm Whale), Pseudorca crassidens (False Killer Whale), Balaenoptera physalus (Fin Whale), Mesoplodon europaeus (Gervais' Beaked Whale), Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback Whale), Orcinus orca (Killer Whale), Stenella attenuata (Pantropical Spotted Dolphin), Kogia breviceps (Pygmy Sperm Whale), Grampus griseus (Risso's Dolphin), Steno bredanensis (Rough-toothed Dolphin), Globicephala macrorhynchus (Short-finned Pilot Whale), Physeter macrocephalus (Sperm Whale), Stenella longirostris (Spinner Dolphin), Stenella longirostris (Spinner Dolphin), Stenella longirostris (Spinner Dolphin), Stenella longirostris (Spinner Dolphin), Trichechus manatus (West Indian Manatee) |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1520-01-01 / 2008-10-14 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Marine mammal records of Cuba |
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| Funding | NA |
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Sampling Methods
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| Study Extent | NA |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | zd_1190 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_1190 |
| 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_1190 |