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Fish fauna of Port Reitz and Tudor Creek (Kenya) in 1985
Citable as data publication
Nzioka R.M.; Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute: Kenya; (2016): Fish fauna of Port Reitz and Tudor Creek (Kenya) in 1985. https://doi.org/10.14284/176
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Description
List of estuarine fish species caught in Port Reitz and Tudor Creeks in 1985. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Polk, P. (Ed.) (1986). Kenya report. VUB: Brussel. 358 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 > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Fish
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Estuarine fish, Fish fauna, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, ISW, Kenya, coast, Port Reitz, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, ISW, Kenya, Mombasa, Tudor Creek, Carangidae Rafinesque, 1815, Clupeidae Cuvier, 1816, Drepanidae, Engraulidae Gill, 1861, Gerreidae Bleeker, 1859, Haemulidae Gill, 1885, Leiognathidae Gill, 1893, Leiognathidae Gill, 1893, Lutjanidae Gill, 1861, Mullidae Rafinesque, 1815, Paralichthyidae Regan, 1910, Sciaenidae Cuvier, 1829, Sparidae Rafinesque, 1818, Sphyraenidae Rafinesque, 1815, Terapontidae Richardson, 1842

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 39,64; MinLat: -4,025 - MaxLong: 39,64; MaxLat: -4,025 [WGS84]
ISW, Kenya, Mombasa, Tudor Creek

Temporal coverage
1985

Taxonomic coverage
Carangidae Rafinesque, 1815 [WoRMS]
Clupeidae Cuvier, 1816 [WoRMS]
Drepanidae [WoRMS]
Engraulidae Gill, 1861 [WoRMS]
Gerreidae Bleeker, 1859 [WoRMS]
Haemulidae Gill, 1885 [WoRMS]
Leiognathidae Gill, 1893 [WoRMS]
Leiognathidae Gill, 1893 [WoRMS]
Lutjanidae Gill, 1861 [WoRMS]
Mullidae Rafinesque, 1815 [WoRMS]
Paralichthyidae Regan, 1910 [WoRMS]
Sciaenidae Cuvier, 1829 [WoRMS]
Sparidae Rafinesque, 1818 [WoRMS]
Sphyraenidae Rafinesque, 1815 [WoRMS]
Terapontidae Richardson, 1842 [WoRMS]

Parameter
Count of fish

Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata manager
Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute Mombasa Centre (KMFRI)data creator
Nzioka, Raphael

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
Historical Kenyan-Belgian research datasets (1873-1999)
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Publication
Based on this dataset
Polk, P. (Ed.) (1986). Kenya report. VUB: Brussel. 358 pp.


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2016-11-10
Metadatarecord created: 2016-07-04
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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