Marine mammal records of Cuba
Amy Whitt
Dataset credit
Amy Whitt
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Contacts
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Primary contact |
Amy Whitt |
Azura Consulting LLC |
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Data entry |
Ei Fujioka |
Duke University |
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Citation
Whitt, A. 2015. Marine mammal records of Cuba. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1190) 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
There has been very little research on marine mammals in Cuban waters. Much of the information on marine mammals in this region is buried in historical and gray literature. In order to provide a comprehensive account of marine mammal occurrence in Cuba’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), we reviewed and verified 659 published and unpublished sighting, stranding, capture, and tagging records. Eighteen extant species and four genera have confirmed records for Cuban EEZ waters. This includes 17 species of cetaceans (three baleen whales and 14 toothed whales) and one sirenian species. An additional 11 cetacean species and one extant pinniped species have been reported, but not confirmed, or may have the potential to occur in Cuban waters. Historical records of the Caribbean monk seal (Monachus tropicalis) are documented in Cuba; however, this species is now considered extinct. The only two species that are seen regularly and considered common in Cuban nearshore waters are the common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) and the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus).
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Purpose
N/A
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Supplemental information
[2023-11-07] A couple of species observed were misidentified. Changes made are: SSHORT-FINNED PILOT WHALE: 180429 => 180466 SPOTTED DOLPHIN: 180429 => 180428 SSPERM WHALE: => 180429 => 180488 [2018-04-16] Irregular date of 2069-11-09 was corrected to 1969-11-09.
The temporal precision varies among records and most of the records do not have times (except those from satellite tag detections).
Some of the lat/long had to be estimated because exact locations were not available. For each record, there is a note describing the locations that are exact. As for the estimated lat/long, we estimated some of these just by finding the lat/long of the general location that was mentioned with the record. For some others, we georeferenced the coordinates from old figures of sightings/strandings since the raw data were not available.
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References
Whitt, A.D., Jefferson, T.A., Blanco, M., Fertl, D., and Rees, D. 2011. A review of marine mammal records of Cuba. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals. 9(2): 65-122.
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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 |
oid | Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP) |
record_no | Record number |
cuba_eez | Flag indicating the location is in the Cuban EEZ |
status | Verification of records: C=Confirmed, P=Possible, D=Doubtful |
sp_obs | Common Name |
scientific_name_orginal | Scientific Name in the original format |
sp_tsn | Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP |
record_type | Record Type |
location | Location |
latitude | Latitude in decimal degrees |
longitude | Longitude in decimal degrees |
date_original | Date in original format |
obs_date | Date of the record converted from date_original |
obs_time | Time of the records. Most of the records do not have time |
tprecision | Temporal precision |
groupsize_original | Group size in original format |
obs_count | Group size converted from groupsize_original |
source | Citation to the literature |
notes | Notes |
sightedfrom | Notes on the observation location, coordinate precision etc. |
other_notes | Other notes |
geom | Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP |
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OBIS-SEAMAP ID | 1190 |
Seabirds | 0 |
Marine mammals | 675 |
Sea turtles | 0 |
Rays and sharks | 0 |
Other species | 0 |
Non spatial | 22 |
Non species | 0 |
Total | 697 |
Date, Begin | 1520-01-01 |
Date, End | 2008-10-14 |
Temporal prec. | 111111 |
Latitude | 19.00 - 25.05 |
Longitude | -86.75 - -73.57 |
Coord. prec. | 6 decimal digits |
Platform | Various |
Data type | Animal sighting |
Effort | N/A |
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Traveled (km) | 0 |
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Registered | 2014-07-09 |
Updated | 2023-11-07 |
Status | Published |
Sharing policy |
CC-BY (All) |
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