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Happywhale - Cuvier's Beaked Whale in North Atlantic Ocean

Citation

Happywhale. 2020. Happywhale - Cuvier's Beaked Whale in North Atlantic Ocean. Data originated from Happywhale.com. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8312

Contact: Cheeseman, Ted ;

Access data

Archived data

Also accessible through:

https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1733

Availability:

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Description

Happywhale.com is a resource to help you know whales as individuals, and to benefit conservation science with rich data about individual whales.

Original provider: Happywhale

Dataset credits: Happywhale and contributors

Supplemental information: Sightings and images were submitted to Happywhale by contributors. A portion of the Happywhale data were transferred to OBIS-SEAMAP upon the agreement between Happywhale and OBIS-SEAMAP. There may be duplicate records among Happywhale datasets and other OBIS-SEAMAP datasets. The precision of date/time vary per record. Some records have date accuracy up to year only. This dataset includes sightings and photos from the following 2 contributors in alphabetic order: Hans Verdaat; Jeff Higgott

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:

Marine/Coastal · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Occurrence · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier, 1823

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -17,93; MinLat: 44,5685 - MaxLong: -3,6035; MaxLat: 51,7 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage

29 April 2016 - 1 June 2021

1 June 2021 - 11 July 2024 (EurOBIS harvested data)

Taxonomic coverage

Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier, 1823 [WoRMS]

Parameter

Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)

Contributors

Happywhale, more, data creator, data owner, proposer