Dataset

Cnidarios del Golfo de México y mar Caribe

Caribbean OBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The dataset contains information of specimens at the Collection "Cnidarios del Golfo de México y mar Caribe" (federal register YUC-CC-254-11) at the UMDI-Sisal, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, México. This dataset represents only specimens identified to genus and species (1308 specimens) from 72 localities in coastal lagoons, piers, and coral reefs at the Gulf of Mexico and Mexican Caribbean from a period of time from 2008 to 2017. The specimens at the collection have been either identified or validated by professional cnidarian taxonomists, providing a significant level of trust in the data. The taxonomists that participated in this process appear in the list of authors.

Citation: Mendoza-Becerril MA., González-Muñoz R., Jerónimo-Aguilar S., Tello-Musi JL., Genzano G., Marques C., Melo-Merino S.M, Mendoza T., Castillo-Cupul R. E., Homá-Canche P., Ugalde D & Simões N. 2020. Cnidarians from the Gulf of Mexico and Mexican Caribbean at the “Colección de Cnidarios del Golfo de México y Caribe Mexicano” at the UMDI-Sisal, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, México

Published: August 06, 2020 at 14:53

URL: http://ipt.iobis.org/caribbeanobis/resource?r=cnidarios_yucatan

Mendoza-Becerril MA.
Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste S. C.

González-Muñoz R.
Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

Genzano G.
Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

Marques C.A.
Universidad de Sao Paulo

Carolina Peralta

1,296
occurrence records
169
taxa
123
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 1,296
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 1,296
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
ON_LAND 26
2.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 1
0.1%

Measurement types

DNA derived data