Name: Aerial sightings of beluga in the Russian Arctic seas 2010
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Original provider: Institute of Ecology and Evolution of Russian Academy of Sciences Dataset credits: Boris Solovyev, Institute of Ecology and Evolution of Russian Academy of Sciences Marine Mammal Council Abstract: The data on observation of white whales (Delphinapterus leucas) during the planned sailing of the research scientific ship "Mikhail Somov" (Arkhangelsk–Wrangel Island–Arkhangelsk) from September 6 to December 6 2010 are presented. The results obtained confirm and correct the existing ideas of the distribution of white whales and directions of their migrations in seas of the Russian Arctic.

Citation

Solovyev, B. 2012. Aerial sightings of beluga in the Russian Arctic seas 2010. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/65f9e577.

Published

October 08, 2025 at 00:30

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

URL

http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_845

Archive

https://ipt.env.duke.edu/archive.do?r=zd_845

Contacts

Boris Solovyev
A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of Russian Academy of Sciences

OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

total submitted occurrences

accepted occurrences

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species

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Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters		14	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	14		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	14		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		14	100.0%

Aerial sightings of beluga in the Russian Arctic seas 2010

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

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Measurement types

DNA derived data