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Marine flora and fauna records from the North-east Atlantic
Citation
Marine flora and fauna records from the North-east Atlantic. Porcupine Marine Natural History Society, UK - UK National Biodiversity Network. https://doi.org/10.15468/pcmg9q
Contact: Porcupine Marine Natural History Society
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
This dataset contains marine littoral and sublittoral records of flora and fauna from the North-east Atlantic, provided by the Porcupine Marine Natural History Society. more

Data are only submitted directly by experts in their particular taxa giving 100% confidence in their quality. Older data have not been reassessed in light of recent revisions in taxonomy.
Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output
Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Fish, Biology > Invertebrates, Biology > Macroalgae, Biology > Mammals
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Littoral zone, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, Sublittoral zone, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, British Isles, England, English Coast, ANE, North East Atlantic, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Actinopterygii, , Annelida, Aves, Bryozoa, Cetacea, Chromista, Cnidaria, Crustacea, Echinodermata, Insecta, , Mollusca, Nemertea, Porifera, Pycnogonida, Tunicata
Geographical coverage
ANE, British Isles, England, English Coast [Marine Regions]
ANE, North East Atlantic [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -9,9375; MinLat: 50,1067 - MaxLong: 1,5988; MaxLat: 59,1276 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
1977 - 2009
Taxonomic coverage
Actinopterygii [WoRMS]
Algae
Annelida [WoRMS]
Aves [WoRMS]
Bryozoa [WoRMS]
Cetacea [WoRMS]
Chromista [WoRMS]
Cnidaria [WoRMS]
Crustacea [WoRMS]
Echinodermata [WoRMS]
Insecta [WoRMS]
Mollusca [WoRMS]
Nemertea [WoRMS]
Porifera [WoRMS]
Pycnogonida [WoRMS]
Tunicata [WoRMS]
Parameters
Distribution
Taxonomy
Contributors
National Biodiversity Network Trust (NBN), more, data provider
Porcupine Marine Natural History Society, data creator
Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA), more, data provider
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Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
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Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2014-04-16
Metadatarecord created: 2012-08-31
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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