http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=iziko_uct_historical
FBIP: SeaKeys - Iziko_UCT_Historical Fish
Albe
Bosman
Iziko Museums
Collections Manager: Ichthyology
25 Queen Victoria street
Cape Town
Western Cape
8000
ZA
0832599130
abosman@iziko.org.za
Albe
Bosman
Iziko Museums
Collections Manager: Ichthyology
25 Queen Victoria street
Cape Town
Western Cape
8000
ZA
0832599130
abosman@iziko.org.za
Mahlatse
Kgatla
SANBI
FBIP Data Specialist
2 Cussonia Avenue
Pretoria
Gauteng
0184
ZA
0128435196
m.kgatla@sanbi.org.za
http://fbip.co.za/contact/
contentProvider
2020-06-30
eng
Around the 1930’s Stevenson and Day along with the University of Cape Town (UCT) started up the UCT ecological survey project which aimed to create a reference collection of the biodiversity along the southern African coastline and various other localities around the world (e.g. Beaufort shelf transect Alaska, Madagascar, etc.) (Griffiths et al. 2010). Initially the survey/project was conducted along the shoreline of southern Africa (estimated collection areas: 36). The survey/project was later expanded to surveying the estuaries of southern Africa (estimated collection areas: 17). The survey/project was completed by conducting deeper water trawls and dredges of the west, south and east coast of southern Africa. It is important to note that each collection area contains various collection sites, for example False Bay (collection area) contains an estimated 856 collection sites. The reference collection and registers were donated to the IZIKO South African museum in the 1960’s by UCT. Numerous amounts of literature have been published by using the data in the registers (Barnard 1951, Stock & Day 1959, Stock & Day 1962, Griffiths 1974, Blaber 1974 and Griffiths et al. 2010). Currently there are a number of taxanomic projects underway, that rely on the data contained within the registers. By making the data available in a sensible electronic format will greatly improve the time taken to complete current and future projects that rely on the registers for data. Along with the reference specimen collection it also contains a vast number of observational records, which could potentially provide a massive istorical database of species occurrences dating back to more than forty years ago. Datasets such as these could potentially give us greater insights into the effects of global change on biodiversity (Chapman 2005, Chapman 2010).
Occurrence
GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml
Observation
GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml
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Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique)
7.383
42.363
-10.488
-37.02
1937-07-07
2000-01-19
Marine Fish
kingdom
Animalia
Marine Fish
unkown
Albe
Bosman
Iziko Museums
Collections Manager: Ichthyology
25 Queen Victoria street
Cape Town
Western Cape
8000
ZA
0832599130
abosman@iziko.org.za
Various methods used, outlined in the spreadsheet
Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique)
Museum registers that house the observational data
Some georeferencing was done, needs further verification of georeferences and taxonomic verification.
SeaKeys - Iziko_UCT_Historical Fish
Kerry
Sink
principalInvestigator
Around the 1930’s Stevenson and Day along with the University of Cape Town (UCT) started up the UCT ecological survey project which aimed to create a reference collection of the biodiversity along the southern African coastline and various other localities around the world (e.g. Beaufort shelf transect Alaska, Madagascar, etc.) (Griffiths et al. 2010). Initially the survey/project was conducted along the shoreline of southern Africa (estimated collection areas: 36). The survey/project was later expanded to surveying the estuaries of southern Africa (estimated collection areas: 17). The survey/project was completed by conducting deeper water trawls and dredges of the west, south and east coast of southern Africa. It is important to note that each collection area contains various collection sites, for example False Bay (collection area) contains an estimated 856 collection sites. The reference collection and registers were donated to the IZIKO South African museum in the 1960’s by UCT. Numerous amounts of literature have been published by using the data in the registers (Barnard 1951, Stock & Day 1959, Stock & Day 1962, Griffiths 1974, Blaber 1974 and Griffiths et al. 2010). Currently there are a number of taxanomic projects underway, that rely on the data contained within the registers. By making the data available in a sensible electronic format will greatly improve the time taken to complete current and future projects that rely on the registers for data. Along with the reference specimen collection it also contains a vast number of observational records, which could potentially provide a massive istorical database of species occurrences dating back to more than forty years ago. Datasets such as these could potentially give us greater insights into the effects of global change on biodiversity (Chapman 2005, Chapman 2010).
Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme
Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique)
2020-06-30T11:14:04.201+02:00
dataset
Bosman A (2020): FBIP: SeaKeys - Iziko_UCT_Historical Fish. v1.1. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=iziko_uct_historical&v=1.1
http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?id=iziko_uct_historical/v1.1.xml