Name: Marine mammal sightings off Galápagos
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Original provider: Daniel Palacios Dataset credits: Daniel M. Palacios and Ocean Alliance Abstract: This dataset contains sightings of marine mammals (whales, dolphins, otariids) collected off the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, during three expeditions by the Ocean Alliance in 1988-1989, 1993-1994, and 2000, aboard research vessels Siben (1988-1989) and Odyssey (1993-1994, 2000).

Citation

Palacios, D. 2018. Marine mammal sightings off Galápagos. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/be3596cc.

Published

October 07, 2025 at 23:01

License

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

URL

http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_656

Archive

https://ipt.env.duke.edu/archive.do?r=zd_656

Contacts

Daniel Palacios
NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center

OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

1,895

total submitted occurrences

1,895

accepted occurrences

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters	1,895		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	1,895		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		1,895	100.0%
ON_LAND		1	0.1%

Marine mammal sightings off Galápagos

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data