Occurrence

FBIP: Atlas of African Echinoderma

Latest version published by South African National Biodiversity Institute on 30 September 2020 South African National Biodiversity Institute
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.
Publication date:
30 September 2020
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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.

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Versions

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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

Who created the resource:

Kerry Sink
Marine Program Manager
South African National Biodiversity Institute
Private Bag X7, Claremont
7735 Cape Town
Western Cape
ZA
0828310536
Charles Griffiths
Emeritus Professor
University of Cape Town
John Day Building, Department of Biological Sciences, Rondebosch
7701 Cape Town
Western Cape
ZA
0216503610

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Kerry Sink
Marine Program Manager
South African National Biodiversity Institute
Private Bag X7, Claremont
7735 Cape Town
Western Cape
ZA
0828310536
Charles Griffiths
Emeritus Professor
University of Cape Town
John Day Building, Department of Biological Sciences, Rondebosch
7701 Cape Town
Western Cape
ZA
0216503610

Who filled in the metadata:

Kerry Sink
Marine Program Manager
South African National Biodiversity Institute
Private Bag X7, Claremont
7735 Cape Town
Western Cape
ZA
0828310536
Charles Griffiths
Emeritus Professor
University of Cape Town
John Day Building, Department of Biological Sciences, Rondebosch
7701 Cape Town
Western Cape
ZA
0216503610

Who else was associated with the resource:

Distributor
Mahlatse Kgatla
FBIP Data Specialist
SANBI
2 Cussonia Avenue, Brummeria
0184 Pretoria
Gauteng
ZA
0128435196
http://fbip.co.za/contact/

Geographic Coverage

Africa

Bounding Coordinates South West [-36.6, 15.145], North East [-3.385, 55.378]

Taxonomic Coverage

distribution of African Echinoderms (starfish, sea-urchins, brittle-stars and their kin) species

Phylum  Echinodermata (Echinoderms)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1938-12-03 / 2017-12-29

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
Identifier IBIP-ITP13060118420
Funding Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme
Study Area Description Africa

The personnel involved in the project:

Principal Investigator
Kerry Sink
Owner
Charles Griffiths

Sampling Methods

Taking images

Study Extent Africa (Southern Africa)
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:

  1. Digitization