Dataset

Biodiversity and ecosystem health of the Aldabra Group, southern Seychelles: Scientific report to the government of Seychelles: Fishes Checklist

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We conducted in situ surveys of fishes, corals, and other components of the reef community at 39 locations, in more than 200 hours of scientific diving. We recorded a total of 332 fish species during our expedition. Fish biomass averaged over 4 tonnes per hectare and was dominated by large groupers and trevally (jacks).

Citation: Friedlander A, Ballesteros E, Beets J, Brown E, Fay M, Haupt P, Henning B, Rose P, Sala E, Earl C (2023). Biodiversity and ecosystem health of the Aldabra Group, southern Seychelles: Scientific report to the government of Seychelles: Fishes Checklist. Version 2.0. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/l1md8g

Published: September 19, 2023 at 05:03

License: To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

URL: https://ipt.obis.org/secretariat/resource?r=aldabra-atoll-friedlander-2015

Contacts:

Alan Friedlander
Pristine Seas, National Geographic Society

Enric Ballesteros
Centre d’Estudis Avançats de Blanes-CSIC

Jim Beets
University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo

Eric Brown
US National Park Service, Kalaupapa National Historical Park

Michael Fay
Pristine Seas, National Geographic Society

Philip Haupt
Seychelles Islands Foundation

Brad Henning
Pristine Seas, National Geographic Society

Paul Rose
Royal Geographical Society

Enric Sala
Pristine Seas, National Geographic Society

OBIS Secretariat
OBIS

Chandra Earl
UNESCO

331
occurrence records
311
taxa
319
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
eventDate 331
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 331
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 331
100.0%
scientificNameID 6
1.8%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 331
100.0%
NO_MATCH 6
1.8%

Measurement types

DNA derived data