Dataset

Red Sea Cetacean Review - Strandings

OBIS-SEAMAP Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Original provider: Tethys Research Institute Dataset credits: Marina Costa & Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Tethys Research Institute Sighting records were collected from the data owners: Eritrea Project - Yohannes Mebrahtu Israel Marine Mammal Research & Assistance Center - IMMRAC Mia Elasar, Daphna Feingold, Oz Goffman, Nir Hadar, Dan Kerem, Aviad Scheinin Red Sea Dolphin Project - HEPCA Abstract: This dataset includes information about stranding occurred along: 1. the Egyptian coast of the Red Sea and collected by the MEGABase program within the Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Association (HEPCA), http://www.hepca.org/ 2. the Eritrean coast by Eritrea Project - Yohannes Mebrahtu 3. The Israeli coast of the Red Sea by IMMRAC

Citation
Costa, M. and G. Notarbartolo di Sciara. 2017. Red Sea Cetacean Review - Strandings. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/97fbb8b0.
Published
October 09, 2025 at 14:37
License
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URL
http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1543
Archive
https://ipt.env.duke.edu/archive.do?r=zd_1543

Contacts

Marina Costa
Tethys Research Institute

Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara
Tethys Research Institute

OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

63
total submitted occurrences
63
accepted occurrences
12
taxa
9
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 63
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 63
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 63
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 63
100.0%
ON_LAND 22
34.9%

Measurement types

DNA derived data