Dataset

Marine and Coastal Management - Seal Surveys

AfrOBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Marine and Coastal Management (MCM)'s seal data set is a collection of seals shot at-sea cruises, and has been collected from cruises around the South African Coast, and currently contains 2440 records of 1 family (Otariidae).

Citation
Marine and Coastal Management - Seal Surveys
Published
December 02, 2020 at 14:09
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
http://ipt.iobis.org/afrobis/resource?r=mcm_seal
Archive
https://ipt.iobis.org/afrobis/archive.do?r=mcm_seal

Contacts

Marine and Coastal Management Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism
Marine and Coastal Management Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism

Steven Kirkman
Marine and Coastal Management; Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism

Ursula von St Ange
CSIR / SADCO / AfrOBIS

2,440
total submitted occurrences
2,440
accepted occurrences
1
taxa
1
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 2,440
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 2,440
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 2,440
100.0%
occurrenceStatus 2,440
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 2,440
100.0%
ON_LAND 4
0.2%

Measurement types

DNA derived data