Description
In April 1979, 323 species of fish were recorded from the South Passage area of Shark Bay. The majority of these are tropical species (83%), with smaller numbers of warm temperate (11%) and cool temperate (6%) species. Many of the tropical species, however, were found to be present in only low numbers, while some warm temperate and one cool temperate species were abundant. The fishes of South Passage, therefore, are considered to belong to an impoverished tropical fauna. Furthermore, South Passage is the southernmost mainland area of Western Australia which supports a predominantly tropical fish fauna. Its fauna is even more diverse than that of the Houtman Abrolhos, a very much larger area of offshore islands and coral reefs located to the south off Geraldton.
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 324 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:
Hutchins J B, Earl C (2023). Fish survey of South Passage Shark Bay, Western Australia: Fishes Checklist. Version 2.0. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/zzrggg
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: 501dd639-ee99-4f3d-8d81-c1a0c0514a07. 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
Shark Bay, Western Australia
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-27.23, 112.868], North East [-24.732, 114.298] |
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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
- Hutchins, J. (1990). Fish survey of South Passage Shark Bay, Western Australia. In Berry, P., Bradshaw, S. & Wilson, B. (eds), Research in Shark Bay. Report of the France-Australe Bicentenary Expedition Committee. Western Australia Museum. Pp. 263-278.
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/zzrggg |
| 501dd639-ee99-4f3d-8d81-c1a0c0514a07 | |
| https://ipt.obis.org/secretariat/resource?r=shark-bay-hutchins-1990 |