Description
Original provider: International Fund for Animal Welfare, Song of the Whale Team Dataset credits: Oliver Boisseau, Marine Conservation Research International
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 7,022 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. 2025. Visual sightings from Song of the Whale 1993-2013. Version 1.5.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/8fd040c4.
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; Observation; Marine Biology; Visual sighting; Marine Animal Survey; Marine mammals; Sea turtles; Visual Sighting; Vessel; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1158 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1158/fgdc UTF-8 XML |
| EML Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1158/eml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
- Owner ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Primary contact
- Metadata Provider ●
- Distributor
- A328 LSRC building
- Originator
Geographic Coverage
Oceans,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 (animals) |
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| Subclass | Elasmobranchii (Cartilaginous fishes) |
| Order | Cetacea (Cetaceans), Testudines (Turtles) |
| Suborder | Odontoceti (Toothed whales) |
| Family | Cheloniidae (Sea turtles), Delphinidae (Dolphins), Phocidae (Earless seals) |
| Genus | Balaenoptera (Baleen whales), Globicephala (Pilot whales), Lagenorhynchus (White-beaked dolphins), Stenella (Spinner dolphins) |
| Species | Alopias vulpinus (thresher shark), Arctocephalus forsteri (Australasian fur seal), Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Common minke whale), Balaenoptera borealis (Sei whale), Balaenoptera brydei (Bryde's whale), Balaenoptera musculus (Blue whale), Balaenoptera physalus (Fin whale), Caretta caretta (Loggerhead sea turtle), Cetorhinus maximus (Basking shark), Chelonia mydas (Green sea turtle), Cystophora cristata (Hooded seal), Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked common dolphin), Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback sea turtle), Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale), Feresa attenuata (Pygmy killer whale), Globicephala macrorhynchus (Short-finned pilot whale), Globicephala melas (Long-finned pilot whale), Grampus griseus (Risso's dolphin), Halichoerus grypus (Atlantic gray seal), Hyperoodon ampullatus (Northern bottlenose whale), Kogia breviceps (Pygmy sperm whale), Kogia sima (Dwarf sperm whale), Lagenodelphis hosei (Fraser's dolphin), Lagenorhynchus albirostris (White-beaked dolphin), Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback whale), Mesoplodon densirostris (Blainville's beaked whale), Mola mola (Ocean sunfish), Monachus monachus (Mediterranean monk seal), Orcinus orca (Killer whale), Peponocephala electra (Melon-headed whale), Phoca vitulina (Harbor seal), Phocoena phocoena (Harbor porpoise), Physeter macrocephalus (Sperm whale), Prionace glauca (Blue shark), Pseudorca crassidens (False killer whale), Rhincodon typus (Whale shark), Stenella attenuata (Pantropical spotted dolphin), Stenella coeruleoalba (Striped dolphin), Stenella frontalis (Atlantic spotted dolphin), Stenella longirostris (Spinner dolphin), Steno bredanensis (Rough-toothed dolphin), Tasmacetus shepherdi (Shepherd's beaked whale), Tursiops truncatus (Common bottlenose dolphin), Ziphius cavirostris (Cuvier's beaked whale) |
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. 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.
| Purpose | |
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| Alternative Identifiers | https://doi.org/10.82144/8fd040c4 |
| https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1158 | |
| https://www.gbif.org/dataset/2247b821-1216-4933-8a6e-cd8b3457e49d | |
| https://obis.org/dataset/a4bb1978-5aa4-4fd2-b8f3-ffc19b6467dc | |
| 2247b821-1216-4933-8a6e-cd8b3457e49d | |
| https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1158 |