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Type locality distributions from the World Register of Marine Species
Citation
WoRMS Editorial Board (2021). Type locality distributions from the World Register of Marine Species. Available from http://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ. Accessed on YYYY-MM-DD. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/5184
Contact: Vandepitte, Leen

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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
Extraction of type locality information from the World Register of Marine Species.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Ecology - biodiversity
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Type localities, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, World Oceans, Biota

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -180; MinLat: -78,8667 - MaxLong: 180; MaxLat: 89,0172 [WGS84]
World Oceans [Marine Regions]

Taxonomic coverage
Biota [WoRMS]

Contributors
WoRMS Steering Committee (SC)data creator
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more
Vandepitte, Leen

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
WoRMS: World Register of Marine Species
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more


Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Literature research
Release date: 2015-01-01
Metadatarecord created: 2015-10-28
Information last updated: 2022-08-10
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