Kenyan reef corals sampled in November 1990
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Melles A.; Borel Best M.; Fundamental and Applied Marine Ecology Post Graduate Program (FAME). VUB: Belgium; National Museum of Natural History: The Netherlands; (2016): Kenyan reef corals sampled in November 1990. https://doi.org/10.14284/109
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 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
This dataset contains a taxonomic list of corals found at the Kenyan reefs (i.e. in Nyali, Bamburi South & North, Vipingo, Malindi) during a sampling campaign in November 1990. Corals were collected by snorkeling and SCUBA diving. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Melles, A. (1991). Taxonomic and sclerochronological studies of Kenyan reef corals. MSc Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussel. 83 pp. 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 > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Invertebrates Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Coral, Coral reefs, diver, Environment, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, human, ISW, Kenya, coast, Malindi Bay, ISW, Kenya, Coast, Vipingo, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ISW, Kenya, Coast, Nyali, ISW, Kenyan Coast, Acroporidae Verrill, 1901, Agariciidae Gray, 1847, Anthozoa, Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846, Faviidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857, Fungiidae Dana, 1846, , Mussidae Ortmann, 1890, Pectinidae Rafinesque, 1815, Pocilloporidae Gray, 1840, Poritidae Gray, 1840, Tubipora Linnaeus, 1758 Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 40,3938; MinLat: -3,1873 - MaxLong: 40,3938; MaxLat: -3,1873 [WGS84] ISW, Kenya, Coast, Nyali [Marine Regions] ISW, Kenyan Coast [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
November 1990 Taxonomic coverage
Acroporidae Verrill, 1901 [WoRMS]
Agariciidae Gray, 1847 [WoRMS]
Anthozoa [WoRMS]
Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846 [WoRMS]
Faviidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 [WoRMS]
Fungiidae Dana, 1846 [WoRMS]
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Mussidae Ortmann, 1890 [WoRMS]
Pectinidae Rafinesque, 1815 [WoRMS]
Pocilloporidae Gray, 1840 [WoRMS]
Poritidae Gray, 1840 [WoRMS]
Tubipora Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
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Presence of biota Contributors
Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Fundamental and Applied Marine Ecology Post Graduate Program (FAME), more, data creator
Naturalis Biodiversity Center (NBC), more, data creator, data creator
Universiteit van Amsterdam; Earth and Life Sciences, more, data creator
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data manager
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Based on this dataset
Melles, A. (1991). Taxonomic and sclerochronological studies of Kenyan reef corals. MSc Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussel. 83 pp., more
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Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2017-02-27
Metadatarecord created: 2013-11-14
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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