Description
South Africa (S.A.) has a rich arachnid fauna with about 5000 known species, which represent 6% of the global arachnid diversity. Currently 75% of the arachnids are endemic to S.A.. The South African National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA) was initiated in 1997. SANSA is an umbrella project dedicated to unify and strengthen biodiversity research on arachnids in S.A.
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 41,575 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.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Lyle R (2015): ARC-PPRI: National Survey of Arachnida (1905-2009). v1.3. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=arc_national_survey_of_arachnida&v=1.3
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is South African National Biodiversity Institute. 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: 823c374e-b830-4ff2-9e97-0e86c39a3d8a. 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; Arachnida; Araneae; Scorpiones; Pseudoscorpiones; Opiliones; Amblypygi; Solifugae; Specimen
Contacts
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Metadata Provider
Geographic Coverage
Southern Africa, with majority records in South Africa
Bounding Coordinates | South West [-35, 11.09], North East [0, 46.23] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
All the Arachnida ordes (excluding the Acari)
Species | Arachnida (Spiders) |
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Temporal Coverage
Start Date / End Date | 1905-09-01 / 2009-04-11 |
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Additional Metadata
Alternative Identifiers | 823c374e-b830-4ff2-9e97-0e86c39a3d8a |
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http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=arc_national_survey_of_arachnida |