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Abundance and habitat of echinoderms collected during the Bangor-Watamu Expedition in 1969
Citable as data publication
Humphreys W.F.; Western Australia Museum: Australia; (2016): Abundance and habitat of echinoderms collected during the Bangor-Watamu Expedition in 1969. https://doi.org/10.14284/97
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Access data
Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
This dataset contains presence-absence data, abundance and habitat descriptions for echinoderm species collected during the Bangor-Watamu Expedition in 1969. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Humphreys, W.F. (1981). The echinoderms of Kenya's marine parks and adjacent regions. Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika: zoologische documentatie = Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale: documentation zoologique, 19. Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika: Tervuren. 39 pp.

Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Benthos, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Invertebrates
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Digitization · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · ISW, Kenya, Coast, Watamu · ISW, Kenya, Mida Creek · Kenya, Kilifi · Marine parks · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · Museum collections · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Kilifi · Mida creek · Asteroidea · Crinoidea · Echinodermata · Echinoidea · Holothuroidea · Ophiuroidea

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 39,15; MinLat: -6,1833 - MaxLong: 41,0538; MaxLat: -2,1173 [WGS84]
Mida creek [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
1969

Taxonomic coverage
Asteroidea [WoRMS]
Crinoidea [WoRMS]
Echinodermata [WoRMS]
Echinoidea [WoRMS]
Holothuroidea [WoRMS]
Ophiuroidea [WoRMS]

Parameters
Abundance
Habitat type
Presence/absence of biota

Contributors
Western Australia Museum, moredata creator
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata manager

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
Historical Kenyan-Belgian research datasets (1873-1999), more
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

Publication
Based on this dataset
Humphreys, W.F. (1981). The echinoderms of Kenya's marine parks and adjacent regions. Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika: zoologische documentatie = Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale: documentation zoologique, 19. Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika: Tervuren. 39 pp., more


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2016-11-10
Metadatarecord created: 2013-11-04
Information last updated: 2026-01-26
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