IMIS

Marine Turtles

Citation

National Biodiversity Network Trust. Marine Turtles. National Biodiversity Network Trust, Newark, UK. https://doi.org/10.15468/fyt9hw

Contact: Penrose, Rod

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Archived data

Availability:

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

Sightings and strandings of both dead and alive marine turtles in the British Isles and the Republic of Ireland. more

Quality control: Location references have been checked for all records. Additional information: Annual Reports at http://www.strandings.com/Wales.html.

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 > Reptiles

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal, Aquatic reptiles, Biodiversity, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Marine, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, British Isles, ANE, Ireland, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Testudines

Geographical coverage

ANE, British Isles [Marine Regions]

ANE, Ireland [Marine Regions]

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -16; MinLat: 44,3853 - MaxLong: 6,0333; MaxLat: 63,76 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage

From 1748 on [In Progress]

Taxonomic coverage

Testudines [WoRMS]

Parameters

Animal sightings
Strandings

Contributors