Description
The dynamics of the fish communities of the Sundarbans are poorly understood. Although there are many published works on the fish fauna of different states of India including that of West Bengal, there is no comprehensive account of the fishes recorded from the Sundarbans. However, the works of Talwar et al. (1992); Mukherjee (1995); Das and Nandi (1999); and Gopal and Chauhan (2006) report the fish diversity of the Sundarbans. Compilations of the species listed in these works reveal that 364 species distributed under 215 genera are available in the Sundarbans as against 4,494 genera world over.
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 353 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:
Chatterjee T K, Earl C (2023). State Of The Art Report On Biodiversity In Indian Sundarbans: Fishes Checklist. Version 2.0. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/b50xdv
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: 878298f7-6182-4a72-bdf6-9dd480d89713. 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
Indian Sundarbans
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [21.716, 88.716], North East [22.194, 89.06] |
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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
- Chatterjee, T (2017) State of art report on biodiversity in Indian Sundarbans. Section 2.14. Coastal Fishes. World Wide Fund for Nature-India, New Delhi.
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/b50xdv |
| 878298f7-6182-4a72-bdf6-9dd480d89713 | |
| https://ipt.obis.org/secretariat/resource?r=indian-sundarbans-chatterjee-2017 |