Document of dataset 8107

Dataset record

Type
Dataset
title in English
Data from the 1935-1936 cruises of the Belgian training ship Mercator 3 Pisces collection
Description in English
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.
Abstract in English
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.
Contactpoint
Email
data@vliz.be
License
https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html
bibliographicCitation
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.
Release date
Sep 2 2022 12:00AM

Temporal coverage

Temporal
Start date
1935-02-03
End date
1939-12-05

Geographical coverage

Spatial
A, Atlantic
Amazonas
Atlantic Coast of Florida
Caribbean
West African Coast

Thesaurus terms

Keyword
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

Ownerships

contactPoint
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
contributor
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
creator
Delsman
creator
Eenheid Archeozoölogie

Publication references

related reference
Based on this dataset /id/publication/26818

Dataset references

record
European Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Special collections

part of special collection
available through EurOBIS
EMODNET

Document metadata

date created
2022-08-24
date modified
2025-03-26