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Happywhale - Indian humpback dolphin in Indian Ocean

Citation

Happywhale. 2021. Happywhale - Indian humpback dolphin in Indian Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1785) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8629

Contact: Cheeseman, Ted ;

Access data

Archived data

Also accessible through:

https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1785

Availability:

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

Description

Original provider: Happywhale Dataset credits: Happywhale and contributors Abstract: Happywhale.com is a resource to help you know whales as individuals, and to benefit conservation science with rich data about individual whales.

Supplemental information: Sightings and images were submitted to Happywhale by contributors. A portion of the Happywhale data were transferred to OBIS-SEAMAP upon the agreement between Happywhale and OBIS-SEAMAP. There may be duplicate records among Happywhale datasets and other OBIS-SEAMAP datasets. The precision of date/time vary per record. Some records have date accuracy up to year only. This dataset includes sightings and photos from the following 4 contributors in alphabetic order: Amy Booysen; Els Vermeulen; Frank Fish; Pamela Le Noury

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

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Occurrence, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Sousa plumbea (G. Cuvier, 1829)

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 20,855; MinLat: -34,4241 - MaxLong: 73,7887; MaxLat: 26,2663 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage

8 February 2011 - 2 January 2017

Taxonomic coverage

Sousa plumbea (G. Cuvier, 1829) [WoRMS]

Contributors

Happywhale, more, data creator, data owner

Cheeseman, Ted

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