Dataset

A global, historical database of tuna, billfish, and saury larval distributions (1956-1981)

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The authors of the cited paper have digitized the data from Nishikawa et al. (1985), which were collected from 1956–1981 and are near-global (50°N–50°S), seasonal distribution maps of fish larvae of 18 mainly commercial pelagic taxa of the families Scombridae, Xiphiidae, Istiophoridae, Scombrolabracidae, and Scomberesocidae. Data were collected from the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. Table 1 from the paper has been used to assign taxa names to the supplied vernacular names in the data accessed from the Zendo repository on 2022-08-01.

Citation: Buenafe, K.C.V., Everett, J.D., Dunn, D.C. et al. A global, historical database of tuna, billfish, and saury larval distributions. Sci Data 9, 423 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01528-7

Published: August 10, 2022 at 00:33

URL: https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=nishikawa_larval_distributions

Kristine Buenafe
University of Queensland

8,578
occurrence records
19
taxa
13
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

No missing or invalid fields.

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
ON_LAND 83
1.0%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 73
0.9%

Measurement types

DNA derived data