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Marine Turtles
Citation
National Biodiversity Network Trust. Marine Turtles. National Biodiversity Network Trust, Newark, UK. https://doi.org/10.15468/fyt9hw
Contact: Penrose, Rod

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Description
Sightings and strandings of both dead and alive marine turtles in the British Isles and the Republic of Ireland. more

Quality control: Location references have been checked for all records. Additional information: Annual Reports at http://www.strandings.com/Wales.html.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Reptiles
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Aquatic reptiles, Biodiversity, Marine, ANE, British Isles, ANE, Ireland, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Testudines

Geographical coverage
ANE, British Isles [Marine Regions]
ANE, Ireland [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -16; MinLat: 44,3853 - MaxLong: 6,0333; MaxLat: 63,76 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
From 1748 on [In Progress]

Taxonomic coverage
Testudines [WoRMS]

Parameters
Animal sightings
Strandings

Contributors
National Biodiversity Network Trust (NBN), moredata ownerdata provider
Marine Environmental Monitoringdata creator
Penrose, Rod
Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA), moredata provider

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more


Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2006-01-24
Metadatarecord created: 2006-01-24
Information last updated: 2014-04-14
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