Occurrence

UCT: Southern African Reptile Conservation Assessment (1910-2009)

Version 1.1 published by South African National Biodiversity Institute on 22 November 2017 South African National Biodiversity Institute
Distribution records for the reptiles of southern Africa, from literature and the SARCA Virtual Museum

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 15,771 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

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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:

Navarro R (2015): UCT: Southern African Reptile Conservation Assessment (1910-2009). v1.1. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=uct_reptile_conservation_assessment&v=1.1

Rights

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

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: c90a0778-e222-406f-bcd7-ed96a2bc5f4c.  South African National Biodiversity Institute publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by South African Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence; Reptiles; Specimen

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Rene Navarro
IT Manager
Animal Demography Unit, University of Cape Town
Animal Demography Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Cape Town
7701 Rondebosch
Western Cape
ZA
(021) 650 2566
http://adu.org.za/

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Rene Navarro
IT Manager
Animal Demography Unit, University of Cape Town
Animal Demography Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Cape Town
7701 Rondebosch
Western Cape
ZA
(021) 650 2566
http://adu.org.za/

Who filled in the metadata:

Fhatani Ranwashe
Data Technician
SANBI
Private Bag X7, Kirstenbosch
7735 Claremont
Western Cape
ZA
021 799 8738
http://www.sanbi.org/

Geographic Coverage

Southern Africa, mainly South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland

Bounding Coordinates South West [-34.875, 13.883], North East [-5.749, 39.29]

Taxonomic Coverage

Reptiles of southern Africa, mainly South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland

Species  Reptilia (Reptiles)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2009-09-25 / 1910-09-07

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers c90a0778-e222-406f-bcd7-ed96a2bc5f4c
http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=uct_reptile_conservation_assessment