Metabarcoding was used to explore species diversity in eDNA samples from the PNBA. Results confirmed the presence of 29 different species, 12 sharks and 17 rays of which 14 species had previously never been reported from the PNBA in the literature.

Citation: de la Hoz Schilling C, Earl C (2024). DNA barcoding as a tool to explore elasmobranch diversity in environmental DNA off the Banc d’Arguin (Mauritania). Version 2.1. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/bce6up

Published: June 26, 2024 at 17:22

URL: https://ipt.obis.org/secretariat/resource?r=banc-darguin-de-la-hoz-schilling-2021

Carolina de la Hoz Schilling
Universidade do Algarve

OBIS Secretariat
OBIS

Chandra Earl
UNESCO

265

occurrence records

265

sequences

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	265	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	265	100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	265	100.0%
scientificNameID	1	0.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	265	100.0%
ON_LAND	66	24.9%
NO_MATCH	1	0.4%

DNA barcoding as a tool to explore elasmobranch diversity in environmental DNA off the Banc d’Arguin (Mauritania)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data