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The marine algae of Alexandria. II. A study of the occurrence of some marine algae on the Egyptian Mediterranean Coast (with 6 figures) by A. H. Nasr (1940). Notes and Memoirs No. 37
Citation
Sarafidou G (2022): The marine algae of Alexandria. II. A study of the occurrence of some marine algae on the Egyptian Mediterranean Coast (with 6 figures) by A. H. Nasr (1940). Notes and Memoirs No. 37. v1.1. Hellenic Center for Marine Research. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/8077
Contact: Sarafidou, Georgia ;

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Archived data
Availability: CC0 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
The sampler for the benthic assemblages was a dredge with a 20*70 cm opening. Study Extent This digitised historical dataset is part of the bigger floristical and faunistical qualitative survey "The fishery grounds near Alexandria" coordinated by Adolf Steuer. It concerns the area along the coasts of the city of Alexandria in Egypt during the year 1938. Quality Control Taxonomy checked using WoRMS (match taxa tool). Method step description: The publication "Steuer Ad., 1935. The fishery grounds near Alexandria. I Preliminary report. Notes and Memoirs No 8, Fisheries Research Directorate, Egypt" http://ipt.medobis.eu/resource?r=egyptexpeditionpreliminaryrepor was used in order to determine the localities of the present dataset.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Macroalgae
Keywords:
Egyptian, Mediterranean region, Alexandria Bay, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Chlorophyta, Ochrophyta, Rhodophyta

Geographical coverage
Alexandria Bay [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 29,62; MinLat: 31,1392 - MaxLong: 30,2319; MaxLat: 32,2622 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
1938 - 27 May 1938

Taxonomic coverage
Chlorophyta [WoRMS]
Ochrophyta [WoRMS]
Rhodophyta [WoRMS]

Parameter
Presence of biota

Contributors
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), moredata providerdata collector
Sarafidou, Georgia
Mavraki, Dimitra

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EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2022-06-15
Information last updated: 2022-12-09
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