Description
This inventory of the fishes of Everglades National Park summarizes the ichthyological and fisheries investigations that have provided information on the composition and distribution of the park's marine, brackish and freshwaterfish faunas. Descriptions of the major aquatic habitats of the park provide a context for the subsequent complete inventoy for the area. South Florida is a region in which members of the Antillean and Carolinian fish faunas meet and mix, giving rise to a diverse assemblage of fishes. Two hundred and ninety species offishes have been recorded from the park, the majority of which occur both in North American and tropical West Atlantic waters. All of the native freshwaterfishes in the park are derived from temperate North America; conversely, the seven established non-indigenous fish species originated in tropical waters. The table of species inellides abundance and habitat use irlfortnation. Species that are of hypothetical or questionable occurrence are also noted.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 299 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Loftus W F, Earl C (2023). Inventory of fishes of Everglades National Park: Fishes Checklist. Version 2.1. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/dpvccz
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS Secretariat. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: ce1b2519-0427-441e-9fc6-4fb83b53b5d9. OBIS Secretariat publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence
Contacts
- Originator
Geographic Coverage
Everglades National Park
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [24.86, -81.52], North East [25.892, -80.383] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Fishes
| Superclass | Agnatha |
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| Unranked | Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes |
Sampling Methods
No Description available
Method step description:
- See Github Project and R Notebook for dataset construction methods
Bibliographic Citations
- Loftus, W. (2000). Inventory of fishes of Everglades National Park. Florida Scientist. 63. 27-47.
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Purpose | These data were made accessible through UNESCO's eDNA Expeditions project to mobilize available marine species and occurrence datasets from World Heritage Sites. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 10.25607/dpvccz |
| ce1b2519-0427-441e-9fc6-4fb83b53b5d9 | |
| https://ipt.obis.org/secretariat/resource?r=everglades-loftus-2000 |