Name: USGS 2001 Buck Island National Monument Cryptic Fish Survey
License: Restricted

Because cryptic fishes are difficult to accurately survey, they are undersampled components of coral reef habitats. Fifty-eight enclosed stations were sampled in shoreline, nearshore reef, lagoon, backreef, forereef, and bank/shelf habitats with an ichthyocide (rotenone) at Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands in July-August 2001. Our samples included 228 fish species in 55 families, including 60 species previously unreported from St. Croix.

Citation

Smith-Vaniz, W.F., H.L. Jelks, and L.A. Rocha. 2010. USGS 2001 Buck Island National Monument Cryptic Fish Survey. U.S. Geological Survey, 7920 NW 71st Street, Gainesville, Florida 32653.Retrieved from http://www.usgs.gov/obis-usa/.

License

Restricted

URL

http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/resource?r=buckislandfish

Archive

http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/archive.do?r=buckislandfish

Contacts

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

Howard Jelks
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

OBIS Secretariat
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

2,609

total submitted occurrences

2,609

accepted occurrences

214

taxa

216

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	2,609		100.0%
occurrenceStatus	2,609		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
ON_LAND		89	3.4%

USGS 2001 Buck Island National Monument Cryptic Fish Survey

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data