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Data from the 1935-1936 cruises of the Belgian training ship Mercator 3 Pisces collection Citation Delsman H. C. Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique; (2022). Data from the 1935-1936 cruises of the Belgian training ship Mercator 3 Pisces collection. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8107 Contact: Availability: ![]() Description Data from the cruises of the Belgian training ship Mercator, 3: Pisces collection. The data were digitized by the Flanders Marine Institute using the citizen science platform DoeDat, and transformed according to the standards of the DwC Event core format. more The fishes from the Belgian training ship Mercator 3 Pisces were collected between 1935-1936, comprising fishes from the African coast, the American coast, the Atlantic and from the Amazon-river. The specimens were brought to the museum by D W Adama and D V Zaslavsly. A few new species were described for this work. 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 Keywords: Mercator (training vessel), Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Citizen participation, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Historical records, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, surface vessel, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, A, Atlantic, Amazonas, Atlantic Coast of Florida, Caribbean, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, West African Coast Geographical coverage A, Atlantic [Marine Regions] Amazonas [Marine Regions] Atlantic Coast of Florida [Marine Regions] Caribbean [Marine Regions] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: -82,87; MinLat: -3,11 - MaxLong: -13,712; MaxLat: 32,27 [WGS84] West African Coast [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage 3 February 1935 - 5 December 1939 Parameters Contributors Related datasets Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more Publication Based on this dataset Delsman, H.C. (1941). Pisces, in: Résultats scientifiques des croisières du navire-école belge Mercator, 3. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, deuxième série = Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Natuurhistorisch Museum van België, tweede reeks, 21: pp. 47-82, more URLs Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: Completed Data type: Data Data origin: Research: field survey Release date: 2022-09-02 Metadatarecord created: 2022-08-24 Information last updated: 2025-03-26 |