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Kenyan reef corals sampled in November 1990 Citable as data publication Melles A.; Borel Best M.; Fundamental and Applied Marine Ecology Post Graduate Program (FAME). VUB: Belgium; National Museum of Natural History: The Netherlands; (2016): Kenyan reef corals sampled in November 1990. https://doi.org/10.14284/109 Contact: Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description This dataset contains a taxonomic list of corals found at the Kenyan reefs (i.e. in Nyali, Bamburi South & North, Vipingo, Malindi) during a sampling campaign in November 1990. Corals were collected by snorkeling and SCUBA diving. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Melles, A. (1991). Taxonomic and sclerochronological studies of Kenyan reef corals. MSc Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussel. 83 pp. Scope Themes: Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Invertebrates Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Coral, Coral reefs, diver, human, ISW, Kenya, coast, Malindi Bay, ISW, Kenya, Coast, Vipingo, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, ISW, Kenya, Coast, Nyali, ISW, Kenyan Coast, Acroporidae Verrill, 1901, Agariciidae Gray, 1847, Anthozoa, Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846, Faviidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857, Fungiidae Dana, 1846, , Mussidae Ortmann, 1890, Pectinidae Rafinesque, 1815, Pocilloporidae Gray, 1840, Poritidae Gray, 1840, Tubipora Linnaeus, 1758 Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 40,3938; MinLat: -3,1873 - MaxLong: 40,3938; MaxLat: -3,1873 [WGS84] ISW, Kenya, Coast, Nyali [Marine Regions] ISW, Kenyan Coast [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage November 1990 Taxonomic coverage Acroporidae Verrill, 1901 [WoRMS] Agariciidae Gray, 1847 [WoRMS] Anthozoa [WoRMS] Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846 [WoRMS] Faviidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 [WoRMS] Fungiidae Dana, 1846 [WoRMS] [WoRMS] Mussidae Ortmann, 1890 [WoRMS] Pectinidae Rafinesque, 1815 [WoRMS] Pocilloporidae Gray, 1840 [WoRMS] Poritidae Gray, 1840 [WoRMS] Tubipora Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS] Parameter Presence of biota Contributors Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Fundamental and Applied Marine Ecology Post Graduate Program (FAME), more, data creator Naturalis Biodiversity Center (NBC), more, data creator, data creator Universiteit van Amsterdam; Earth and Life Sciences, more, data creator Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data manager Related datasets Publication Based on this dataset Melles, A. (1991). Taxonomic and sclerochronological studies of Kenyan reef corals. MSc Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussel. 83 pp., more Dataset status: Completed Data type: Data Data origin: Research: field survey Metadatarecord created: 2013-11-14 Information last updated: 2022-08-16 | ||||
