Description
Original provider: UK Royal Navy Dataset credits: United Kingdom Royal Navy Abstract: This dataset includes unclassified incidental sightings of cetaceans from the United Kingdom Royal Navy ships. The dataset is global in coverage. Purpose: The Royal Navy often operates in remote areas and the purpose of collecting this sort of data is to contribute to a better scientific understanding of cetacean distributions, breeding areas, migration routes, etc. By ensuring that Royal Navy personnel keep watch for cetaceans helps them to comply with current risk mitigation measures. Supplemental information: 12/07/06: Observations for Lagenorhynchus acutus (180443: Atlantic white-sided dolphin) that are located in the Southern Hemisphere were replaced with Lagenorhynchus (180441: white-side dolphin)
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 1,408 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:
Maughan, B. and K. Arnold. 2010. UK Royal Navy Marine Mammal Observations. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/64) 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: 5136e139-312d-47d0-a665-dc8e6b351254. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/64 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/64/xml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
- Owner ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Metadata Provider ●
- Distributor
Geographic Coverage
Oceans
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-74.65, -122.43], North East [70.33, 159.23] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Order | Cetacea (cetaceans), Cetacea (cetaceans) |
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| Family | Delphinidae (dolphins), Delphinidae (dolphins), Phocoenidae (porpoises), Balaenopteridae (rorquals), Delphinidae (dolphins) |
| Genus | Balaenoptera (baleen whales), Mesoplodon (beaked whales), Hyperoodon, Balaenoptera (baleen whales), Globicephala (pilot whales), Eubalaena, Balaenoptera (baleen whales), Stenella (spinner dolphins), Stenella (spinner dolphins), Lagenorhynchus (white-beaked dolphins) |
| Species | Stenella frontalis (Atlantic Spotted Dolphin), Lagenorhynchus acutus (Atlantic White-sided Dolphin), Balaenoptera musculus (Blue Whale), Tursiops truncatus (Common Bottlenose Dolphin), Balaenoptera brydei (Bryde's whale), Cephalorhynchus commersonii (Commerson's Dolphin), Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked Common Dolphin), Ziphius cavirostris (Cuvier's Beaked Whale), Lagenorhynchus obscurus (Dusky Dolphin), Pseudorca crassidens (False Killer Whale), Balaenoptera physalus (Fin Whale), Eschrichtius robustus (Gray Whale), Phocoena phocoena (Harbor Porpoise), Lagenorhynchus cruciger (Hourglass Dolphin), Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback Whale), Sousa chinensis (Chinese white dolphin), Orcinus orca (Killer Whale), Globicephala melas (Long-finned Pilot Whale), Stenella longirostris (Spinner Dolphin), Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Minke Whale), Stenella attenuata (Pantropical Spotted Dolphin), Lagenorhynchus australis (Peale's Dolphin), Caperea marginata (Pygmy Right Whale), Kogia breviceps (Pygmy Sperm Whale), Grampus griseus (Risso's Dolphin), Balaenoptera borealis (Sei Whale), Globicephala macrorhynchus (Short-finned Pilot Whale), Stenella clymene (Clymene Dolphin), Hyperoodon planifrons (Southern Bottlenose Whale), Eubalaena australis (Southern Right Whale), Physeter macrocephalus (Sperm Whale), Stenella coeruleoalba (Striped Dolphin), Lagenorhynchus albirostris (White-beaked Dolphin) |
| Subspecies | Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda (Pygmy blue whale) |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1947-10-21 / 2003-03-31 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | UK Royal Navy Marine Mammal Observations |
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| Funding | NA |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Owner
- Owner
Sampling Methods
NA
| Study Extent | NA |
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Method step description:
- NA
Collection Data
| Collection Name | zd_64 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_64 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Purpose | The Royal Navy often operates in remote areas and the purpose of collecting this sort of data is to contribute to a better scientific understanding of cetacean distributions, breeding areas, migration routes, etc. By ensuring that Royal Navy personnel keep watch for cetaceans helps them to comply with current risk mitigation measures. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_64 |