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Abundance and habitat of echinoderms collected during the Bangor-Watamu Expedition in 1969
Citable as data publication
Humphreys W.F.; Western Australia Museum: Australia; (2016): Abundance and habitat of echinoderms collected during the Bangor-Watamu Expedition in 1969. https://doi.org/10.14284/97
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This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
This dataset contains presence-absence data, abundance and habitat descriptions for echinoderm species collected during the Bangor-Watamu Expedition in 1969. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Humphreys, W.F. (1981). The echinoderms of Kenya's marine parks and adjacent regions. Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika: zoologische documentatie = Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale: documentation zoologique, 19. Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika: Tervuren. 39 pp.
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 > Benthos, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Invertebrates
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Digitization, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Marine parks, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, Museum collections, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, ISW, Kenya, Coast, Watamu, ISW, Kenya, Mida Creek, Kenya, Kilifi, Asteroidea, Crinoidea, Echinodermata, Echinoidea, Holothuroidea, Ophiuroidea
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 39,15; MinLat: -6,1833 - MaxLong: 41,0538; MaxLat: -2,1173 [WGS84]
Coordinates: MinLong: 39,15; MinLat: -6,1833 - MaxLong: 41,0538; MaxLat: -2,1173 [WGS84]
ISW, Kenya, Coast, Watamu
ISW, Kenya, Mida Creek [Marine Regions]
Kenya, Kilifi [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
1969
Taxonomic coverage
Parameters
Abundance
Habitat type
Presence/absence of biota
Habitat type
Presence/absence of biota
Contributors
Western Australia Museum, data creator
Humphreys, William
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data manager
Related datasets
Parent dataset:
Historical Kenyan-Belgian research datasets (1873-1999)
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
Publication
Based on this dataset
Humphreys, W.F. (1981). The echinoderms of Kenya's marine parks and adjacent regions. Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika: zoologische documentatie = Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale: documentation zoologique, 19. Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika: Tervuren. 39 pp.
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Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2016-11-10
Metadatarecord created: 2013-11-04
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
