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iziko South African Museum - Shark collection Citation iziko South African Museum, South Africa Shark Collection. AfrOBIS, South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/1977 Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description This collection has global holdings. It includes numerous representatives of eight of the shark groups, most representatives of the Batoids and Chimaeras, including rare species. Significant material is being acquired from, fisheries research and tooth fish long-lining and fishing company by-catches. Lineage Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output Scope Themes: Biology > Fish Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Fresh water, Brackish water, Terrestrial, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, Museum collections, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, Sharks, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, World Oceans, Pisces Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: -42,9167; MinLat: 31,85 - MaxLong: 26,2467; MaxLat: 60,335 [WGS84] World Oceans [Marine Regions] Taxonomic coverage Pisces [WoRMS] Contributor iziko South African Museum, more, data owner Related datasets URLs Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: In Progress Data type: Data Data origin: Museum collection Release date: 2009-05-29 Metadatarecord created: 2009-06-09 Information last updated: 2025-03-26 | ||||
