Original provider: Marijke N. de Boer Dataset credits: Marijke N. de Boer Abstract: The cetacean communities inhabiting eastern tropical Atlantic (ETA) waters along the west coast of Africa are globally amongst the most poorly studied. The limited recent information available is derived mainly from the monitoring of strandings and fisheries interactions at landing sites. However, little is known about the habitat preferences of the species that occur off Congo because at-sea sightings have rarely been published.

Citation: de Boer, M. 2024. Cetacean and sea turtle sightings from offshore Republic of Congo. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/487eab08.

Published: October 08, 2025 at 14:07

URL: https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_2294

Marijke de Boer
Wageningen Marine Research, University of Wageningen

OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

686

occurrence records

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters	686		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	686		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		686	100.0%

Cetacean and sea turtle sightings from offshore Republic of Congo

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data