Occurrence

Coastal fish diversity of the Socotra Archipelago, Yemen: Fishes Checklist

Latest version published by OBIS Secretariat on 13 September 2023 OBIS Secretariat
Publication date:
13 September 2023
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CC0 1.0

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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

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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

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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.

Keywords

Occurrence

Contacts

Uwe Zajonz
  • Originator
Senckenberg Research Institute and Museum of Nature
Edouard Lavergne
  • Originator
Kyoto University
Sergey Y. Bogorodsky
  • Originator
Station of Naturalists
Fouad Naseeb Saeed
  • Originator
Environmental Protection Authority, Socotra Branch
Moteah Sheikh Aideed
  • Originator
Hadhramout University
Friedhelm Krupp
  • Originator
Senckenberg Research Institute and Museum of Nature
Chandra Earl
  • Metadata Provider
  • Processor
eDNA Scientific Officer
OBIS Secretariat
  • Point Of Contact
Secretariat

Geographic Coverage

Socotra Archipelago

Bounding Coordinates South West [11.909, 51.859], North East [12.912, 54.739]

Taxonomic Coverage

Fishes

Superclass Agnatha
Unranked Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes

Sampling Methods

No Description available

Method step description:

  1. See Github Project and R Notebook for dataset construction methods

Bibliographic Citations

  1. 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.
Alternative Identifiers 10.25607/tzzetb
4da053cc-0615-4681-9845-b4c94e056770
https://ipt.obis.org/secretariat/resource?r=socotra-zajonz-2019