Checklist of the fishes of New Caledonia, and their distribution in the Southwest Pacific Ocean (Pisces): Fishes Checklist

Ronald Fricke1, Michel Kulbicki1, Laurent Wantiez1, Chandra Earl2, Chandra Earl3

1 ; 2 UNESCO, ; 3 UNESCO, 

Corresponding author(s): Ronald FrickeMichel KulbickiLaurent Wantiez, Chandra Earl (c.earl@unesco.org)

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Resource Citation

Fricke R, Kulbicki M, Wantiez L, Earl C (2023). Checklist of the fishes of New Caledonia, and their distribution in the Southwest Pacific Ocean (Pisces): Fishes Checklist. Version 2.0. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/fq9y4b https://doi.org/10.25607/fq9y4b

Abstract

A checklist of the fishes of New Caledonia is presented. A total of 2328 species in 246 families have been recorded from the region. Eight of these species are not native, but have been introduced. Five fish families are represented only by introduced species. The native fish fauna of New Caledonia therefore consists of 2320 species in 241 families. The largest families are the Gobiidae, Labridae, Pomacentridae, Serranidae, Apogonidae, Blenniidae, Macrouridae, Myctophidae and Muraenidae. The freshwater fish fauna is dominated by the families Gobiidae, Eleotridae, Anguillidae and Mugilidae. A total of 61 species represent new records from New Caledonia.

Keywords: Occurrence

General description

Purpose: These data were made accessible through UNESCO's eDNA Expeditions project to mobilize available marine species and occurrence datasets from World Heritage Sites.
Additional information: marine, harvested by iOBIS

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.obis.org/secretariat/resource?r=new-caledonia-fricke-2011

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Fishes
Taxonomic ranks
Unranked: Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: New Caledonia
Coordinates: 23°7'35.4''S and 17°53'55.68''S Latitude; 162°43'32.88''E and 167°44'50.28''E Longitude 

Methods

Method step description: See Github <a href="https://github.com/iobis/mwhs-data-mobilization">Project</a> and <a href="https://iobis.github.io/mwhs-data-mobilization/notebooks/lagoons_of_new_caledonia_reef_diversity_and_associated_ecosystems/Fricke_et_al_2011"> R Notebook</a> for dataset construction methods

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Checklist of the fishes of New Caledonia, and their distribution in the Southwest Pacific Ocean (Pisces): Fishes Checklist
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.obis.org/secretariat/archive.do?r=new-caledonia-fricke-2011
Publication date of data: 2023-09-20
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2023-09-20
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Fricke, Ronald & Kulbicki, Michel & Wantiez, Laurent. (2011). Checklist of the fishes of New Caledonia, and their distribution in the Southwest Pacific Ocean (Pisces). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A Neue Serie. 4. 341-463.