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Distribution and abundance of corals along the Kenyan coast
Citable as data publication
Muthiga N.; Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute: Kenya; (2016): Distribution and abundance of corals along the Kenyan coast. https://doi.org/10.14284/166
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
Tentative checklist of hermatypic coral species and distribution of coral genera along the Kenyan coast. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Polk, P. (Ed.) (1986). Kenya report. VUB: Brussel. 358 pp. more

The checklist includes corals identified in the field, and corals that are part of the KMFRI collection and the University of Nairobi, Zoology Department collection.
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 > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Invertebrates
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Checklists, Coral reefs, Corals, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, ISW, Kenya, coast, Bamburi, ISW, Kenya, coast, Kanamai, ISW, Kenya, coast, Malindi, marine national park, ISW, Kenya, coast, shimoni, ISW, Kenya, Coast, Tiwi, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, ISW, Kenya, Coast, Diani, ISW, Kenya, Coast, Nyali, ISW, Kenya, Mida Creek, ISW, Kenyan Coast, Kenya, Kiunga Marine National Reserve, Acropora Oken, 1815, Anthozoa, Favia Oken, 1815, , Pocillopora Lamarck, 1816, Porites Link, 1807, Scleractinia, Stylophora Schweigger, 1820
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 39,3667; MinLat: -4,6167 - MaxLong: 41,2393; MaxLat: -2,0226 [WGS84]
ISW, Kenya, Coast, Diani
ISW, Kenya, Coast, Nyali [Marine Regions]
ISW, Kenya, Mida Creek [Marine Regions]
ISW, Kenyan Coast [Marine Regions]
Kenya, Kiunga Marine National Reserve
Taxonomic coverage
Acropora Oken, 1815 [WoRMS]
Anthozoa [WoRMS]
Favia Oken, 1815 [WoRMS]
Pocillopora Lamarck, 1816 [WoRMS]
Porites Link, 1807 [WoRMS]
Scleractinia [WoRMS]
Stylophora Schweigger, 1820 [WoRMS]
Parameter
Presence/absence of biota
Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data manager
Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute Mombasa Centre (KMFRI), more, data creator
Muthiga, Nyawira
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
Polk, P. (Ed.) (1986). Kenya report. VUB: Brussel. 358 pp., more
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Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2016-11-10
Metadatarecord created: 2016-07-01
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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