Occurrence

Happywhale - Common bottlenose dolphin in North Atlantic Ocean

Latest version published by OBIS-SEAMAP on 17 March 2025 OBIS-SEAMAP
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Description

Original provider: Happywhale Dataset credits: Happywhale and contributors Abstract: Happywhale.com is a resource to help you know whales as individuals, and to benefit conservation science with rich data about individual whales. Supplemental information: Sightings and images were submitted to Happywhale by contributors. A portion of the Happywhale data were transferred to OBIS-SEAMAP upon the agreement between Happywhale and OBIS-SEAMAP. There may be duplicate records among Happywhale datasets and other OBIS-SEAMAP datasets. The precision of date/time vary per record. Some records have date accuracy up to year only. This dataset includes sightings and photos from the following 28 contributors in alphabetic order: Allie Smith; Charlotte Kirchner; Christian Wegener; Corinne Eichler; Cottele Benny; Dennis Maloney; Era Horton; Eric Angel Ramos; Espaço Talassa; Holly Morgan-Wynne; Iuliia; Janiek Schrijer; Kimberly Nesbitt; Lara Eade; Marilia Olio; Matthew Gledhill; MS Spitsbergen; OSI Cetis; Paula Hoppe; Per Nikolaj Bukh; Phillippa Tichotova; Rob Rector; Ryan Donnelly; Sabine+Ulf; Sara Franson; steve; Whale Wonders BVI; Zeal Goolesby

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 831 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:

Happywhale. 2024. Happywhale - Common bottlenose dolphin in North Atlantic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1947) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com.

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: e69d3360-6a96-45c7-9758-88ad50df5428.  OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.

Keywords

Occurrence,PhotoID;Visual sighting; Observation; Occurrence

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1947 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1947/xml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Ted Cheeseman
  • Owner
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Primary contact
Happywhale
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
NC
US

Geographic Coverage

Adriatic Sea;Aegean Sea;Black Sea;Caribbean Sea;English Channel;Gulf of Mexico;Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland;North Atlantic Ocean

Bounding Coordinates South West [10.323, -97.061], North East [57.191, 39.949]

Taxonomic Coverage

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

Species Tursiops truncatus (Common bottlenose dolphin)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2008-10-02 / 2024-07-09

Project Data

No Description available

Title Happywhale - Common bottlenose dolphin in North Atlantic Ocean
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Ted Cheeseman
  • Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_1947
Collection Identifier zd_1947
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Purpose Not available
Alternative Identifiers e69d3360-6a96-45c7-9758-88ad50df5428
https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1947