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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
Access data
Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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.
Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Reptiles
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Aquatic reptiles, Biodiversity, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, British Isles, Eire, Environment, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Marine, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, British Isles, ANE, Ireland, 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), more, data owner, data provider
Marine Environmental Monitoring, data creator
Penrose, Rod
Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA), more, data provider
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Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
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Dataset information:
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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: 2025-03-26
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