Description
This is a historical dataset that was published in 1936 by H. Balss and concerns of the faunistic report on the Decapoda collected during the floristical and faunistical survey of Adolf Steuer on the coasts near Alexandria mainly with the vessel “El Hoot”. This dataset covers the time span of 3/9/1933 to 18/11/1933 and contains occurence data of Decapoda in the coasts of Alexandria, Egypt. It also informations about individual counts, sex, lifestage and carapace length. The digitization of this dataset was done by LifewatchGreece team.
Data Records
The data in this sampling event 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 107 records.
2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
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:
Legaki Aglaia, Tsikopoulou Irini and Nikolopoulou Stamatina (2016). Digitization of "Balss, H., 1936. Decapoda. The Fishery grounds near Alexandria. VII. Notes and Memoirs of the Fisheries Research Directory of Egypt 15: 1-67".
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Hellenic Center for Marine Research. 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: 9737046d-84e9-4e7d-8f11-5cbc0741da77. Hellenic Center for Marine Research 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
Decapoda were found in about 150 sampling stations in the coasts of Alexandria, Egypt.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [31.054, 29.659], North East [31.473, 30.426] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Main category : Decapoda
| Order | Decapoda, Mysida |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1933-09-03 / 1933-11-18 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Digitization of Historical Dataset-Egypt Expedition |
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| Funding | LifewatchGreece |
The personnel involved in the project:
Sampling Methods
This dataset is only a part from a large faunistical expedition (http://ipt.medobis.eu/resource?r=egyptexpeditionpreliminaryrepor) that took place in the coasts near Alexandria. The samples were collected by A. Steuer. For bottom samples almost exclusively a dredge with 20x70 cm opening was used. A single catch was made in a depth of 20 m with a large otter trawl in the eastern part of the Bay of Abukir. In general, the motor-launch of the Marine Laboratory "El Hoot" was used for dredging and a rowing boat in shallow water. All excursions were one-day trips. After the expedition, taxonomic identification of the samples was done by specialists. The results of this expedition were published in separate for each taxonomic group volumes. Thus, sampling methods were described in a preliminary report by A. Steuer. Decapod and Scizopod species were identified by H. Balss and Zimmer C. respectively
| Study Extent | A report on the decapoda collected near coast of Alexandria, in the year 1933. |
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Method step description:
- Adolf Steuer.Preliminary report.The Fishery Grounds Near Alexandria. Notes and Memories No 8.http://ipt.medobis.eu/resource?r=egyptexpeditionpreliminaryrepor. http://ipt.medobis.eu/resource?r=egyptexpeditionbottomsampler.
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS. Publication: Digging for historical data on the occurrence of benthic macrofaunal species in the southeastern Mediterranean https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/10071/
| Alternative Identifiers | http://medobis.portal.lifewatchgreece.eu/ |
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| 9737046d-84e9-4e7d-8f11-5cbc0741da77 | |
| http://ipt.medobis.eu/resource?r=egyptexpeditiondecapoda |