The Fishery Grounds near Alexandria.VII.Decapoda.By Heinrich Balss.(1936).Notes and memoirs No. 15
Citation
Legaki Aglaia, Tsikopoulou Irini and Nikolopoulou Stamatina (2016). Digitization of "Balss, H., 1936. Decapoda. The Fishery grounds near Alexandria. VII. Notes and Memoirs of the Fisheries Research Directory of Egypt 15: 1-67". https://doi.org/10.15468/o5gp3i accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-04-18. accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-04-18. accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-06-30.Description
This is a historical dataset that was published in 1936 by H. Balss and concerns of the faunistic report on the Decapoda collected during the floristical and faunistical survey of Adolf Steuer on the coasts near Alexandria mainly with the vessel “El Hoot”. This dataset covers the time span of 3/9/1933 to 18/11/1933 and contains occurence data of Decapoda in the coasts of Alexandria, Egypt. It also informations about individual counts, sex, lifestage and carapace length. The digitization of this dataset was done by LifewatchGreece team.Sampling Description
Study Extent
A report on the decapoda collected near coast of Alexandria, in the year 1933.Sampling
This dataset is only a part from a large faunistical expedition (http://ipt.medobis.eu/resource?r=egyptexpeditionpreliminaryrepor) that took place in the coasts near Alexandria. The samples were collected by A. Steuer. For bottom samples almost exclusively a dredge with 20x70 cm opening was used. A single catch was made in a depth of 20 m with a large otter trawl in the eastern part of the Bay of Abukir. In general, the motor-launch of the Marine Laboratory "El Hoot" was used for dredging and a rowing boat in shallow water. All excursions were one-day trips. After the expedition, taxonomic identification of the samples was done by specialists. The results of this expedition were published in separate for each taxonomic group volumes. Thus, sampling methods were described in a preliminary report by A. Steuer. Decapod and Scizopod species were identified by H. Balss and Zimmer C. respectivelyMethod steps
- Adolf Steuer.Preliminary report.The Fishery Grounds Near Alexandria. Notes and Memories No 8.http://ipt.medobis.eu/resource?r=egyptexpeditionpreliminaryrepor. http://ipt.medobis.eu/resource?r=egyptexpeditionbottomsampler.
Additional info
marine, harvested by iOBIS. Publication: Digging for historical data on the occurrence of benthic macrofaunal species in the southeastern Mediterranean https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/10071/Taxonomic Coverages
Main category : Decapoda
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Decapodarank: order
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Mysidarank: order
Geographic Coverages
Decapoda were found in about 150 sampling stations in the coasts of Alexandria, Egypt.
Bibliographic Citations
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Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture
Irini Tsikopoulou
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University of Crete
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Stamatina Nikolopoulou
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Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture
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