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Kenyan reef corals sampled in November 1990
Citable as data publication
Melles A.; Borel Best M.; Fundamental and Applied Marine Ecology Post Graduate Program (FAME). VUB: Belgium; National Museum of Natural History: The Netherlands; (2016): Kenyan reef corals sampled in November 1990. https://doi.org/10.14284/109
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This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
This dataset contains a taxonomic list of corals found at the Kenyan reefs (i.e. in Nyali, Bamburi South & North, Vipingo, Malindi) during a sampling campaign in November 1990. Corals were collected by snorkeling and SCUBA diving. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Melles, A. (1991). Taxonomic and sclerochronological studies of Kenyan reef corals. MSc Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussel. 83 pp.
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 > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Invertebrates
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Coral · Coral reefs · diver · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · human · ISW, Kenya, coast, Malindi Bay · ISW, Kenya, Coast, Vipingo · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Kenyan Coast · Nyali · Acroporidae Verrill, 1901 · Agariciidae Gray, 1847 · Anthozoa · Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846 · Faviidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 · Fungiidae Dana, 1846 · · Mussidae Ortmann, 1890 · Pectinidae Rafinesque, 1815 · Pocilloporidae Gray, 1840 · Poritidae Gray, 1840 · Tubipora Linnaeus, 1758
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 40,3938; MinLat: -3,1873 - MaxLong: 40,3938; MaxLat: -3,1873 [WGS84]
Coordinates: MinLong: 40,3938; MinLat: -3,1873 - MaxLong: 40,3938; MaxLat: -3,1873 [WGS84]
Kenyan Coast [Marine Regions]
Nyali [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
November 1990
Taxonomic coverage
Acroporidae Verrill, 1901 [WoRMS]
Agariciidae Gray, 1847 [WoRMS]
Anthozoa [WoRMS]
Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846 [WoRMS]
Faviidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 [WoRMS]
Fungiidae Dana, 1846 [WoRMS]
[WoRMS]
Mussidae Ortmann, 1890 [WoRMS]
Pectinidae Rafinesque, 1815 [WoRMS]
Pocilloporidae Gray, 1840 [WoRMS]
Poritidae Gray, 1840 [WoRMS]
Tubipora Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Parameter
Presence of biota
Contributors
Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Fundamental and Applied Marine Ecology Post Graduate Program (FAME), data creator
Melles, Amanuel
Naturalis Biodiversity Center (NBC), data creator, co-ordinator
Borel Best, Maya
Universiteit van Amsterdam; Earth and Life Sciences, co-ordinator
Ganssen, Gerald
Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee (NIOZ), more, co-ordinator
Bak, Rolf
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data manager
Related datasets
Parent dataset:
Historical Kenyan-Belgian research datasets (1873-1999)
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
Publication
Based on this dataset
Melles, A. (1991). Taxonomic and sclerochronological studies of Kenyan reef corals. MSc Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussel. 83 pp.
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Dataset information:
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Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2017-02-27
Metadatarecord created: 2013-11-14
Information last updated: 2026-01-26
