Red Sea Cetacean Review - Strandings

Marina Costa; Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara; Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara

doi:10.15468/9e65uj

Red Sea Cetacean Review - Strandings

Citation

Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Kerem D., Smeenk C., Rudolph P., Cesario A., Costa M., Elasar M., Feingold D., Fumagalli M., Goffman O., Hadar N., Mebrathu Y.T., Scheinin A. 2017. Cetaceans of the Red Sea. CMS Technical Series 33. 86p. https://doi.org/10.15468/9e65uj accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-05-28.

Description

Original provider: Tethys Research Institute Dataset credits: Marina Costa & Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Tethys Research Institute Sighting records were collected from the data owners: Eritrea Project - Yohannes Mebrahtu Israel Marine Mammal Research & Assistance Center - IMMRAC Mia Elasar, Daphna Feingold, Oz Goffman, Nir Hadar, Dan Kerem, Aviad Scheinin Red Sea Dolphin Project - HEPCA Abstract: This dataset includes information about stranding occurred along: 1. the Egyptian coast of the Red Sea and collected by the MEGABase program within the Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Association (HEPCA), http://www.hepca.org/ 2. the Eritrean coast by Eritrea Project - Yohannes Mebrahtu 3. The Israeli coast of the Red Sea by IMMRAC Purpose: Gather cetacean stranding information occurred along the Red Sea and Supplemental information: Stranding records were collected from the data owners: Eritrea Project - Yohannes Mebrahtu IMMRAC Red Sea Dolphin Project - HEPCA Temporal resolution varies per record. Time values are not available. "tprecision" column is added to indicate the resolution.

Purpose

Gather cetacean stranding information occurred along the Red Sea and

Sampling Description

Study Extent

NA

Sampling

NA

Method steps

NA

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Balaenoptera edeni
common name: Eden's whale rank: species
Balaenoptera
common name: baleen whales rank: genus
Delphinus capensis tropicalis
common name: Indo-Pacific common dolphin rank: subspecies
Grampus griseus
common name: Risso's Dolphin rank: species
Kogia sima
common name: Dwarf Sperm Whale rank: species
Sousa chinensis
common name: Chinese white dolphin rank: species
Stenella attenuata
common name: Pantropical Spotted Dolphin rank: species
Stenella longirostris
common name: Spinner Dolphin rank: species
Stenella
common name: spinner dolphins rank: genus
Steno bredanensis
common name: Rough-toothed Dolphin rank: species
Tursiops aduncus
common name: Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphin rank: species
Tursiops
common name: bottlenose dolphins rank: genus

Geographic Coverages

Red Sea

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Marina Costa
originator
position: Primary contact
Tethys Research Institute
email: marinza.costa@gmail.com
homepage: http://www.tethys.org

Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara
originator
position: Secondary contact
Tethys Research Institute
email: tethys@tethys.org
homepage: http://www.tethys.org

OBIS-SEAMAP
metadata author
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
Durham
27708
NC
US
email: seamap-contact@duke.edu
homepage: http://seamap.env.duke.edu

OBIS-SEAMAP
distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
Durham
27708
NC
US
email: seamap-contact@duke.edu
homepage: http://seamap.env.duke.edu

Marina Costa
owner
position: Primary contact
Tethys Research Institute
email: marinza.costa@gmail.com
homepage: http://www.tethys.org

Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara
originator
position: Secondary contact
Tethys Research Institute
email: tethys@tethys.org
homepage: http://www.tethys.org

Marina Costa
administrative point of contact
position: Primary contact
Tethys Research Institute
email: marinza.costa@gmail.com
homepage: http://www.tethys.org