Dataset

Tonga reef fish survey data 2016-2018

SWP OBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

This data represents coral reef ecological surveys conducted in the Kingdom of Tonga from 2016-2018. 375 sites were surveyed across the Tongatapu, Ha'apai and Vava'u island groups by Patrick Smallhorn-West, Dr. Daniela Ceccarelli and Karen Stone. All surveys were conducted on SCUBA.

Citation
Smallhorn-West P, Stone K, Ceccarelli D (2022): Tonga reef fish survey data 2016-2018. v1.0. Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node. Dataset/Occurrence. https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=tongareefsurvey2016&v=1.0
Published
June 17, 2022 at 03:37
First registration
June 17, 2022 at 03:40
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=tongareefsurvey2016
Archive
https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/archive.do?r=tongareefsurvey2016

Contacts

Patrick Smallhorn-West
Marine Biology and Aquaculture, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University

Karen Stone
Vava’u Environmental Protection Agency

Daniela Ceccarelli
Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University

80,990
total submitted occurrences
80,990
accepted occurrences
506
taxa
517
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

No missing or invalid fields.

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
ON_LAND 426
0.5%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 48
0.1%

Measurement types

DNA derived data