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Visual sightings from Song of the Whale 1993-2013

Dataset homepage

Citation

Boisseau O, OBIS-SEAMAP, ACCOBAMS and WDCS (2021). Visual sightings from Song of the Whale 1993-2013. OBIS-SEAMAP. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/5c69jn accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-05-18.

Description

Original provider: International Fund for Animal Welfare, Song of the Whale Team Dataset credits: Oliver Boisseau, Marine Conservation Research International Supplemental information: [2020-09-30] The following invalid species names were corrected according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Turtles: Testudines (173749) => Testudines (948936) The databases from 1993 to 2013 were merged into one dataset. Attributes recorded in these databases may differ. Since GPS data would become too huge to effectively visualize online, every 10th record was extracted. All GPS data can be requested. Environmental attributes were recorded less frequently than the GPS data and not all GPS records get environmental attributes attached.

Purpose

Not available

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. Arctocephalus forsteri
    common name: Australasian fur seal rank: species
  2. Cetorhinus maximus
    common name: basking shark rank: species
  3. Mesoplodon densirostris
    common name: Blainville's Beaked Whale rank: species
  4. Prionace glauca
    common name: blue shark rank: species
  5. Balaenoptera musculus
    common name: Blue Whale rank: species
  6. Tursiops truncatus
    common name: Common Bottlenose Dolphin rank: species
  7. Balaenoptera brydei
    common name: Bryde's whale rank: species
  8. Delphinus delphis
    common name: Short-beaked Common Dolphin rank: species
  9. Phoca vitulina
    common name: Harbor Seal rank: species
  10. Ziphius cavirostris
    common name: Cuvier's Beaked Whale rank: species
  11. Kogia sima
    common name: Dwarf Sperm Whale rank: species
  12. Pseudorca crassidens
    common name: False Killer Whale rank: species
  13. Balaenoptera physalus
    common name: Fin Whale rank: species
  14. Lagenodelphis hosei
    common name: Fraser's Dolphin rank: species
  15. Chelonia mydas
    common name: Green Sea Turtle rank: species
  16. Halichoerus grypus
    common name: Atlantic gray seal rank: species
  17. Phocoena phocoena
    common name: Harbor Porpoise rank: species
  18. Cheloniidae
    common name: Sea Turtles rank: family
  19. Cystophora cristata
    common name: Hooded Seal rank: species
  20. Megaptera novaeangliae
    common name: Humpback Whale rank: species
  21. Orcinus orca
    common name: Killer Whale rank: species
  22. Dermochelys coriacea
    common name: Leatherback Sea Turtle rank: species
  23. Caretta caretta
    common name: Loggerhead Sea Turtle rank: species
  24. Peponocephala electra
    common name: Melon-headed Whale rank: species
  25. Balaenoptera acutorostrata
    common name: Minke Whale rank: species
  26. Monachus monachus
    common name: Mediterranean Monk Seal rank: species
  27. Hyperoodon ampullatus
    common name: Northern bottlenose whale rank: species
  28. Eubalaena glacialis
    common name: North Atlantic Right Whale rank: species
  29. Globicephala melas
    common name: Long-finned Pilot Whale rank: species
  30. Globicephala macrorhynchus
    common name: Short-finned Pilot Whale rank: species
  31. Globicephala
    common name: pilot whales rank: genus
  32. Feresa attenuata
    common name: Pygmy Killer Whale rank: species
  33. Kogia breviceps
    common name: Pygmy Sperm Whale rank: species
  34. Grampus griseus
    common name: Risso's Dolphin rank: species
  35. Steno bredanensis
    common name: Rough-toothed Dolphin rank: species
  36. Balaenoptera borealis
    common name: Sei Whale rank: species
  37. Tasmacetus shepherdi
    common name: Shepherd's Beaked Whale rank: species
  38. Physeter macrocephalus
    common name: Sperm Whale rank: species
  39. Stenella longirostris
    common name: Spinner Dolphin rank: species
  40. Stenella frontalis
    common name: Atlantic Spotted Dolphin rank: species
  41. Stenella attenuata
    common name: Pantropical Spotted Dolphin rank: species
  42. Stenella
    common name: spinner dolphins rank: genus
  43. Stenella coeruleoalba
    common name: Striped Dolphin rank: species
  44. Mola mola
    common name: ocean sunfish rank: species
  45. Alopias vulpinus
    rank: species
  46. Balaenoptera
    common name: baleen whales rank: genus
  47. Odontoceti
    common name: toothed whales rank: suborder
  48. Delphinidae
    common name: dolphins rank: family
  49. Phocidae
    common name: earless seals rank: family
  50. Elasmobranchii
    common name: cartilaginous fishes rank: subclass
  51. Testudines
    common name: Turtles rank: order
  52. Cetacea
    common name: cetaceans rank: order
  53. Animalia
    rank: kingdom
  54. Rhincodon typus
    common name: whale shark rank: species
  55. Lagenorhynchus albirostris
    common name: White-beaked Dolphin rank: species
  56. Lagenorhynchus
    common name: white-beaked dolphins rank: genus

Geographic Coverages

North Atlantic Ocean,Mediterranean Sea

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Oliver Boisseau
originator
position: Primary contact
Song of the Whale team, MCR International
email: oboisseau@mcr-team.org
homepage: http://www.marineconservationresearch.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
Oliver Boisseau
owner
position: Primary contact
Song of the Whale team, MCR International
email: oboisseau@mcr-team.org
homepage: http://www.marineconservationresearch.org
ACCOBAMS and WDCS
originator
The Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS) and Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS)
homepage: http://www.accobams.org/
Oliver Boisseau
administrative point of contact
position: Primary contact
Song of the Whale team, MCR International
email: oboisseau@mcr-team.org
homepage: http://www.marineconservationresearch.org
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