Integrated Marine Information System

Tunisian Polychaetes by 2022

Citation

AYARI KLITI R (2024). Tunisian Polychaetes by 2022. Version 2.0. Hellenic Center for Marine Research. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/iuaoit

Contact: AYARI, Rakia

Access data

Archived data

Availability:

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

Description

This dataset was compiled by a. gathering data and taxonomic revision of polychaetes records from published literature, b. adding new species from sampling on the Gulf of Gabes Tidal channels, and c. from the systematic revision of the polychaetes collection deposited at the Institut National des Sciences et Technoligies de la mer (INSTM); which were confused with their congeneric species. The regional distribution of the species is Western and Central Mediterranean.

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, Literature, Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean sea, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Occurrence, Oceans, Polychaeta, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, MED, Tunisia, Polychaeta

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 9,8545; MinLat: 33,2448 - MaxLong: 11,2445; MaxLat: 37,7423 [WGS84]

MED, Tunisia [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage

1 January 1912 - 31 December 2022

Taxonomic coverage

Polychaeta [WoRMS]

Contributors

National Institute of Marine Sciences and Technology (INSTM) of Tunesia (INSTM), more, data creator

AYARI, Rakia

Faculty of Sciences, Sfax (FSS), more, data provider