FBIP: SeaKeys - iziko_cartilaginous_fish

Occurrence
Latest version published by South African National Biodiversity Institute on Jun 30, 2020 South African National Biodiversity Institute

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Description

The iziko South African Museum has a comprehensive holdings comprising of identified cartilaginous fish, mostly from Cape waters, but extending to Angola and Mozambique and the Southern, Indian and Atlantic Oceans. It currently contains 4066 records.

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Bosman A (2020): FBIP: SeaKeys - iziko_cartilaginous_fish. v1.1. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=iziko_cartilaginous_fish&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 (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: e87e0415-bdb2-45eb-8954-b6b4454e1852.  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; Specimen

Contacts

Albe Bosman
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Collections Manager: Ichthyology
Iziko Museums
25 Queen Victoria street
8000 Cape Town
Western Cape
ZA
0832599130
Mahlatse Kgatla
  • Content Provider
FBIP Data Specialist
SANBI
2 Cussonia Avenue
0184 Pretoria
Gauteng
ZA
0128435196

Geographic Coverage

Global coverage

Bounding Coordinates South West [-80, -64.033], North East [80.416, 60.133]

Taxonomic Coverage

Marine Cartilaginous Fish

Phylum Chordata (Cartilaginous fish)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1852-08-12 / 2015-02-08

Project Data

The iziko South African Museum has a comprehensive holdings comprising of identified cartilaginous fish, mostly from Cape waters, but extending to Angola and Mozambique and the Southern, Indian and Atlantic Oceans. It currently contains 4066 records.

Title SeaKeys - iziko_cartilaginous_fish
Identifier IBIP-ITP13060118420
Funding Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme
Study Area Description Global coverage

The personnel involved in the project:

Kerry Sink
  • Principal Investigator

Sampling Methods

Museum Specimens

Study Extent Global coverage
Quality Control Some georeferencing was done, needs further verification of georeferences and taxonomic verification.

Method step description:

  1. Various methods used, outlined in the spreadsheet

Additional Metadata