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M. Burton (1936). The Fishery grounds near Alexandria IX – Sponges. Notes and Memoirs No.17. Department of Zoology, British Museum. Fisheries Research Directorate. Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Egypt Citation Mavraki Dimitra, Paranou Giota and Nikolopoulou Stamatina (2017). Digitation of The fishery grounds near Alexandria. IX Sponges. Notes and Memoirs No 17. Fisheries Research Directorate, 1936, Egypt https://doi.org/10.15468/9rjqln Contact: Nikolopoulou, Stamatina Availability:  To the extent possible under law, the person who associated CC0 with this dataset has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this dataset.Description This historical collection consists of 150 specimens and it is of particular interest since it is the first to be taken from the waters of the Eastern Mediterranean. The main point of importance brought out by the present investigations is that there are definite signs of an immigration of sponges from the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. Scope Themes: Biology > Invertebrates Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Data, Eastern mediterranean sea, Historical datasets, Marine Genomics, Marine sponges, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, MED, Eastern Mediterranean, Porifera Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 27,2337; MinLat: 31,1176 - MaxLong: 30,1738; MaxLat: 31,4015 [WGS84] MED, Eastern Mediterranean [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage 3 August 1933 - 16 November 1933 Taxonomic coverage Porifera [WoRMS] Parameter Collected biological specimens Contributors Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), more, data creator, data owner Related datasets Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more Dataset status: Completed Data type: Data Data origin: Research: field survey Metadatarecord created: 2018-07-26 Information last updated: 2022-08-03 | ||||
