Description
The Socotra Archipelago, located in the eastern Gulf of Aden, has a unique marine environment which combines tropical and ‘pseudo-temperate’ elements. Studies on the fish biogeography of the archipelago, partially framed in regional studies, have substantially outpaced critical elementary research on the archipelago’s fish diversity. The present study seeks to close this gap and identifies the Socotra Archipelago as a major hotspot of coastal fish diversity in the Indian Ocean. The archipelago supports unique coastal fish assemblages which are predominantly composed of coral-associated (“reef”) species, in spite of the limited biogenic reef frameworks. A Preliminary Checklist comprises 682 species with confirmed records and a “Working List” includes an additional 51 records, totalling 733 faunal records in 108 families.
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 682 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
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Zajonz U, Lavergne E, Bogorodsky S Y, Saeed F N, Aideed M S, Krupp F, Earl C (2023). Coastal fish diversity of the Socotra Archipelago, Yemen: Fishes Checklist. Version 2.0. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/tzzetb
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: 4da053cc-0615-4681-9845-b4c94e056770. OBIS Secretariat publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
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Geographic Coverage
Socotra Archipelago
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [11.909, 51.859], North East [12.912, 54.739] |
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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
- Zajonz U, Lavergne E, Bogorodsky S, Saeed F, Aideed M, Krupp F. (2019). Coastal fish diversity of the Socotra Archipelago, Yemen. Zootaxa. 4636. 001-108. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4636.1.1
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/tzzetb |
| 4da053cc-0615-4681-9845-b4c94e056770 | |
| https://ipt.obis.org/secretariat/resource?r=socotra-zajonz-2019 |