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Dr.Karl Viets. 1935. The fishery grounds near Alexandria. IV. -Some Marine Mites From Alexandria. Notes and Memoirs No 11. Fisheries Research Directorate, Egypt.

Citation

Nikolopoulou Stamatina and Evangelia Avramidou (2017). Digitation of The fishery grounds near Alexandria. IV.-Some Marine Mites From Alexandria. Notes and Memoirs No 11. Fisheries Directorate, 1935, Cairo. https://doi.org/10.15468/aibg20 accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-04-18. accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-04-18. accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-07-05.

Description

This is a historical dataset that was published in 1935 by Dr Karl Viets and concerns of some marine mites collected from Egyptian littoral waters near Alexandria. They 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 9/9/1933 to 13/11/1933.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

A report on the marine mites 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. Marine mites were identified by Dr Karl Viets.

Method steps

  1. 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

marine mites
  1. Litarachna
    rank: genus
  2. Halacarus
    rank: genus
  3. Agauopsis
    rank: genus
  4. Rhombognathus
    rank: genus

Geographic Coverages

marine mites in 4 stations , littoral.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Stamatina Nikolopoulou
originator
position: Research Technician
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture
Evangelia Avramidou
originator
position: Data manager
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Stamatina Nikolopoulou
metadata author
position: Research Technician
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture
email: snikolo@hcmr.gr
Stamatina Nikolopoulou
administrative point of contact
position: Research Technician
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture
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