Presence of long-beaked common dolphins off central-western Venezuela, 2008-2011
Jaime Bolaños-Jiménez

Dataset credit

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Contacts

RoleNameOrganization 
Primary contact Jaime Bolanos Sea Vida
Data entry Ei Fujioka Duke University

Citation

Bolanos, J. 2014. Presence of long-beaked common dolphins off central-western Venezuela, 2008-2011. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1073) on yyyy-mm-dd.
Halpin, P.N., A.J. Read, E. Fujioka, B.D. Best, B. Donnelly, L.J. Hazen, C. Kot, K. Urian, E. LaBrecque, A. Dimatteo, J. Cleary, C. Good, L.B. Crowder, and K.D. Hyrenbach. 2009. OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions. Oceanography. 22(2):104-115.

Abstract

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Purpose

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Supplemental information

The dataset includes both sighting and stranding records of Delphinus sp.

Two sightings on 25 Aug 2009 and 02 Sept 2011 are mixed-species aggregation with approx. 20 Atlantic spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis) and with approx. 180 Atlantic spotted dolphins (S. frontalis), respectively.

References

Bolaños-Jiménez, J., G. Castro-Pérez, O. Herrera-Trujillo, L. Oviedo, D. Palacios, M.F. Puerto, L. Sánchez- Criollo, L. Sifontes, M.G. Silva-Hernández and A. Villarroel-Marín. In press. The presence of long-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus sp.) off central-western Venezuela. Anartia, Maracaibo, Venezuela.

Attributes

Overview

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
Only minimum required attributes are visible and downlodable online. Other attributes may be obtained upon provider's permission unless otherwise noted below.

This section explains attributes included in the original dataset. OBIS-SEAMAP restricts the attributes available to the public to date/time, lat/lon and species names/counts only. Should you need other attributes described here, you are encouraged to contact the data provider.

Attributes in dataset provided

Attribute (table column)Description
oidUnique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP)
row_idRow ID
obs_datetimeDate of the observation (time not provided)
latitudeLatitude in decimal degrees
longitudeLongitude in decimal degrees
depthBottom depth (bathymetry) in meters at the sighting location
speciesSpecies name
sp_tsnTaxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
obs_countGroup size
calvesNumber of calves and juveniles
stateVenezuelan state
recordIndicate whether the record is a sighting or stranding
tprecisionAccuracy of the date/time.
geomGeometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP
OBIS-SEAMAP ID1073
Seabirds0
Marine mammals14
Sea turtles0
Rays and sharks0
Other species0
Non spatial0
Non species0
Total14
Date, Begin2008-01-01
Date, End2011-09-02
Temporal prec.111111
Latitude10.41 - 11.89
Longitude-71.81 - -65.86
Coord. prec.6 decimal digits
PlatformVarious
Data typeAnimal sighting
EffortN/A
Registered2013-12-05
Updated2014-01-15
StatusPublished
Sharing policy CC-BY (All)
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