Occurrence records of southern African aquatic biodiversity

Willem Coetzer1

1 South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Somerset Street, 6139, Grahamstown, South Africa

Corresponding author(s): Willem Coetzer (w.coetzer@saiab.ac.za)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

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&amp;v=1.2

Abstract

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

Keywords: Occurrence

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.saiab.ac.za/resource?r=saiab

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Class: Actinopterygii, Cephalasipomorphi, Cephalochordata, Dipnoi, Elasmobranchii, Myxini, Sarcopterygii

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Worldwide
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: January 1, 1880 - January 1, 2016

Natural collections description

Collection name: National Fish Collection
Collection identifier: SAIAB
Specimen preservation method: Alcohol

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Occurrence records of southern African aquatic biodiversity
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.saiab.ac.za/archive.do?r=saiab
Publication date of data: 2017-10-14
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2016-01-20
Hierarchy level: Dataset