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Red Sea Cetacean Review - Strandings

Dataset homepage

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 2022-05-16.

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

  1. NA

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
  1. Balaenoptera edeni
    common name: Eden's whale rank: species
  2. Balaenoptera
    common name: baleen whales rank: genus
  3. Delphinus capensis tropicalis
    common name: Indo-Pacific common dolphin rank: subspecies
  4. Grampus griseus
    common name: Risso's Dolphin rank: species
  5. Kogia sima
    common name: Dwarf Sperm Whale rank: species
  6. Sousa chinensis
    common name: Chinese white dolphin rank: species
  7. Stenella attenuata
    common name: Pantropical Spotted Dolphin rank: species
  8. Stenella longirostris
    common name: Spinner Dolphin rank: species
  9. Stenella
    common name: spinner dolphins rank: genus
  10. Steno bredanensis
    common name: Rough-toothed Dolphin rank: species
  11. Tursiops aduncus
    common name: Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphin rank: species
  12. 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
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