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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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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.

Scope

Themes:

Biology > Benthos, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Invertebrates

Keywords:

Marine, ISW, Kenya, Coast, Watamu, ISW, Kenya, Mida Creek, Kenya, Kilifi, Asteroidea, Crinoidea, Echinodermata, Echinoidea, Holothuroidea, Ophiuroidea

Geographical coverage

ISW, Kenya, Coast, Watamu

ISW, Kenya, Mida Creek [Marine Regions]

Kenya, Kilifi [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

Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data manager

Western Australia Museum, more, data creator

Humphreys, William

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

Metadatarecord created: 2013-11-04

Information last updated: 2016-04-11

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