Occurrence records of southern African aquatic biodiversity

Occurrence
Version 1.7 published by The South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity on Jun 28, 2016 The South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity

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Description

Specimen-records (of physical specimens) of fishes, mostly from southern Africa and surrounding oceans, but also from elsewhere in the world.

Versions

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How to cite

Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset.  Researchers should cite this work as follows:

SAIAB (2016): Specimen-records of preserved specimens in the National Collection of Fishes of South Africa. v1.2. The South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.saiab.ac.za/resource?r=saiab&v=1.2

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is The South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 1aaec653-c71c-4695-9b6e-0e26214dd817.  The South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by South African Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence

Contacts

Willem Coetzer
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • User
  • Point Of Contact
Biodiversity Information Manager
South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
Somerset Street
6139 Grahamstown
Eastern cape
ZA
+27466035841

Geographic Coverage

Worldwide

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Class Actinopterygii, Cephalasipomorphi, Cephalochordata, Dipnoi, Elasmobranchii, Myxini, Sarcopterygii

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1880-01-01 / 2016-01-01

Collection Data

Collection Name National Fish Collection
Collection Identifier SAIAB
Specimen preservation methods Alcohol

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 1aaec653-c71c-4695-9b6e-0e26214dd817
http://ipt.saiab.ac.za/resource?r=saiab