Preliminary Report on Check Lists of Reef Fishes at Aldabra, December 2021

Nigel Downing; Ben Stobart

doi:10.25607/fsbkww

Preliminary Report on Check Lists of Reef Fishes at Aldabra, December 2021

Citation

Downing N, Stobart B, Earl C (2023). Preliminary Report on Check Lists of Reef Fishes at Aldabra, December 2021. Version 2.1. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/fsbkww accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-15.

Description

From 9th to 12th December 2021 a series of dives were carried out on the outer reef of Aldabra along the north and west sides of the atoll. The purpose was to identify non-cryptic reef fish species between the approximate depths of 10m and 20m at a series of locations specified by Seychelles Island Foundation (SIF) researchers based at Aldabra.

Purpose

These data were made accessible through UNESCO's eDNA Expeditions project to mobilize available marine species and occurrence datasets from World Heritage Sites.

Sampling Description

Method steps

See Github Project and R Notebook for dataset construction methods

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Fishes

Agnatha
rank: Superclass
Chondrichthyes
rank: unranked
Osteichthyes
rank: unranked

Geographic Coverages

Aldabra Atoll

Bibliographic Citations

Downing, Nigel & Stobart, Ben. (2021). Preliminary Report on Check Lists of Reef Fishes at Aldabra, December 2021. Aldabra Marine Programme - https://www.aldabra.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Report-on-December-2021-Aldabra-surveys.pdf

Contacts

Nigel Downing
originator
Aldabra Marine Programme

Ben Stobart
originator
Aldabra Marine Programme

Chandra Earl
metadata author
position: eDNA Scientific Officer
UNESCO
email: c.earl@unesco.org

Chandra Earl
processor
position: eDNA Scientific Officer
UNESCO
email: c.earl@unesco.org

OBIS Secretariat
administrative point of contact
position: Secretariat
OBIS
email: helpdesk@obis.org