Cetacean distribution around Mayotte Island
Jeremy Kiszka

Jeremy Kiszka

This dataset gather 434 cetacean sightings around the Mozambique Channel island of Mayotte (France). These data were systematically collected during surveys having various objectives (small cetaceans, humpback whales). It includes 18 species, including the dugong, the humpback whale, beaked whales (2 species), sperm whales (3 species) and 11 delphinids.

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Effort data will be appended later.

Gross, A., J. Kiszka, O. Van Canneyt, P. Richard, and V. Ridoux. 2009. A preliminary study of habitat and resource partitioning among co-occurring tropical dolphins around Mayotte, southwest Indian Ocean. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Sciences. 84(3):367-374

Kiszka, J., Ersts, P. & Ridoux, V. In prep. Distribution, encounter rates and group characteristics of cetaceans around the Mozambique Channel island of Mayotte. Marine Biology

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Attributes in dataset provided

Attribute (table column)	Description
date	Date of observation
species	Species observed
time	Time of observation
group_num
latitude	Latitude of observation
end_time	End time of the contact
longitude	Longitude of observation
end_lat	End latitude
end_lon	End longitude
max_count
min_count
obs_count	A few records have this field blank
id	SEAMAP-defined Row ID
sp_assoc	Inter-species association observed
sp_tsn	Species ITIS TSN
oid	Unique ID number (generated by SEAMAP)