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Presence of long-beaked common dolphins off central-western Venezuela, 2008-2011
Jaime Bolaños-Jiménez
Dataset credit
N/A
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Contacts
| Role | Name | Organization | |
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| Primary contact |
Jaime Bolanos |
Sea Vida |
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| Data entry |
Ei Fujioka |
Duke University |
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Citation
Bolanos, J. 2014. Presence of long-beaked common dolphins off central-western Venezuela, 2008-2011. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1073) on yyyy-mm-dd. Halpin, P.N., A.J. Read, E. Fujioka, B.D. Best, B. Donnelly, L.J. Hazen, C. Kot, K. Urian, E. LaBrecque, A. Dimatteo, J. Cleary, C. Good, L.B. Crowder, and K.D. Hyrenbach. 2009. OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions. Oceanography. 22(2):104-115.
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Abstract
not provided
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Purpose
not provided
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Supplemental information
The dataset includes both sighting and stranding records of Delphinus sp.
Two sightings on 25 Aug 2009 and 02 Sept 2011 are mixed-species aggregation with approx. 20 Atlantic spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis) and with approx. 180 Atlantic spotted dolphins (S. frontalis), respectively.
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References
Bolaños-Jiménez, J., G. Castro-Pérez, O. Herrera-Trujillo, L. Oviedo, D. Palacios, M.F. Puerto, L. Sánchez- Criollo, L. Sifontes, M.G. Silva-Hernández and A. Villarroel-Marín. In press. The presence of long-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus sp.) off central-western Venezuela. Anartia, Maracaibo, Venezuela.
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Attributes
Overview
This section explains attributes included in the original dataset.
OBIS-SEAMAP restricts the attributes available to the public to date/time, lat/lon and species names/counts only.
Should you need other attributes described here, you are encouraged to contact the data provider.
Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
All attributes are included in the downloadable file (CSV or ESRI File Geodatabase) for "Complete Set of Dataset".
Attributes in dataset
| Attribute (table column) | Description |
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| oid | Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP) |
| row_id | Row ID |
| obs_datetime | Date of the observation (time not provided) |
| latitude | Latitude in decimal degrees |
| longitude | Longitude in decimal degrees |
| depth | Bottom depth (bathymetry) in meters at the sighting location |
| species | Species name |
| sp_tsn | Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP |
| obs_count | Group size |
| calves | Number of calves and juveniles |
| state | Venezuelan state |
| record | Indicate whether the record is a sighting or stranding |
| tprecision | Accuracy of the date/time. |
| geom | Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP |
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| OBIS-SEAMAP ID | 1073 |
| Seabirds | 0 |
| Marine mammals | 14 |
| Sea turtles | 0 |
| Rays and sharks | 0 |
| Other species | 0 |
| Non spatial | 0 |
| Non species | 0 |
| Total | 14 |
| Date, Begin | 2008-01-01 |
| Date, End | 2011-09-02 |
| Temporal prec. | 111111 |
| Latitude | 10.41 - 11.89 |
| Longitude | -71.81 - -65.86 |
| Coord. prec. | 6 decimal digits |
| Platform | Various |
| Data type | Animal sighting |
| Effort | N/A |
| Traveled (km) | 0 |
| 0 |
| Contr. through | |
| Registered | 2013-12-05 |
| Updated | 2014-01-15 |
| Status | Published |
Sharing policy |
CC-BY (All) |
| Shared with |
OBIS
GBIF (via DOI) |
| See metadata in static HTML |
| See metadata in FGDC XML |
| See download history / statistics |
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