Name: Distribution and abundance of corals along the Kenyan coast
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Tentative checklist of hermatypic coral species and distribution of coral genera along the Kenyan coast. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Polk, P. (Ed.) (1986). Kenya report. VUB: Brussel. 358 pp.

Citation

Muthiga N.; Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute: Kenya; (2016): Distribution and abundance of corals along the Kenyan coast. (http://www.vliz.be/en/imis?module=dataset&dasid=5418) https://dx.doi.org/10.14284/166

Published

September 17, 2025 at 09:08

First registration

September 29, 2017 at 00:00

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

URL

http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=corals_kenyan_coast

Archive

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=corals_kenyan_coast

Contacts

Nyawira Muthiga
Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute Mombasa Centre

Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute Mombasa Centre
Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute Mombasa Centre

Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute
Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute

282

total submitted occurrences

281

accepted occurrences

133

taxa

104

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	170		60.3%
eventDate	282		100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	282		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	282		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	282	100.0%
ON_LAND	110	39.0%
NO_MATCH	1	0.4%

Distribution and abundance of corals along the Kenyan coast

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data