Description
update the distribution of all African Echinoderms (starfish, sea-urchins, brittle-stars and their kin) species. Through collaborations with professional scientists, conservation organisations, divers and citizen scientists across Africa, we consolidate all reliable and identifiable evidence of current Echinoderms locations into an open-access digital database.
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 1,474 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:
Sink K, Griffiths C (2020): FBIP: Atlas of African Echinoderma. v1.0. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=sink_seakeys-sanbi_echinomap-citizenscience_2013_v1&v=1.0
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: 5643e170-3ece-4377-abb1-67a7205577d0. 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; Observation
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Distributor
Geographic Coverage
Africa
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-36.6, 15.145], North East [-3.385, 55.378] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
distribution of African Echinoderms (starfish, sea-urchins, brittle-stars and their kin) species
| Phylum | Echinodermata (Echinoderms) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1938-12-03 / 2017-12-29 |
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Project Data
update the distribution of all African Echinoderms (starfish, sea-urchins, brittle-stars and their kin) species. Through collaborations with professional scientists, conservation organisations, divers and citizen scientists across Africa, we consolidate all reliable and identifiable evidence of current Echinoderms locations into an open-access digital database.
| Title | FBIP: Atlas of African Echinoderma |
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| Identifier | IBIP-ITP13060118420 |
| Funding | Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme |
| Study Area Description | Africa |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Principal Investigator
- Owner
Sampling Methods
Taking images
| Study Extent | Africa (Southern Africa) |
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| Quality Control | All VM records include coordinates. Species identificatios in the VM collections are done by a panel of Echinoderm experts. Photos submitted to the virtual museum are biased to species that are easy to photograph and to areas which are most accessible to the public. |
Method step description:
- Digitization
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=sink_seakeys-sanbi_echinomap-citizenscience_2013_v1 |
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