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Checklist of benthic marine algae and cyanobacteria of northern Portugal
Citation
Aráujo R., Bárbara I, Tibaldo M., Berecibar E., Díaz Tapia P., Pereira R., Santos R. & Sousa-Pinto I. Checklist of benthic marine algae and cyanobacteria of northern Portugal. Centre of Marine and Environmental Research; Interdisciplinary Centre for Marine and Environmental Research (Porto) (Ciimar). https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/1941
Contact: Sousa Pinto, Isabel
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
Based on new records, literature references and herbarium data, an updated checklist of the benthic marine algae of the northern Portuguese coast is provided. more

Based on new records, literature references and herbarium data, an updated checklist of the benthic marine algae of the northern Portuguese coast is provided. The checklist includes 346 species: 26 Cyanobacteria, 200 Rhodophyta, 70 Ochrophyta and 50 Chlorophyta. Of these, 21 species are new records for the Portuguese coast.
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 > Macroalgae
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Algae, Benthos, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Check lists, Cyanobacteria, Data, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Marine Genomics, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, Monitoring, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Phytobenthos, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, Portugal, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Chlorophyta, Cyanobacteria, Ochrophyta, Rhodophyta
Geographical coverage
ANE, Portugal [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -8,9064; MinLat: 40,1789 - MaxLong: -8,6567; MaxLat: 41,8589 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
1999 - 2007
Taxonomic coverage
Chlorophyta [WoRMS]
Cyanobacteria [WoRMS]
Ochrophyta [WoRMS]
Rhodophyta [WoRMS]
Parameter
Presence of biota
Contributors
University of Porto; Interdisciplinary Centre for Marine and Environmental Research (Porto) (CIIMAR), more, data provider, data manager, data owner, data creator
Sousa Pinto, Isabel
Araújo, Rita Micaela
University of A Coruña; Department of animal, plant and ecological biology, more, data creator
Bárbara, Ignacio
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
Publication
Based on this dataset
Araujo, R et al. (2009). Checklist of benthic marina algae and cyanobacteria of northern Portugal. Bot. Mar. 52(1): 24-46. https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/BOT.2009.026, more
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Dataset information:
Other:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2009-04-29
Metadatarecord created: 2009-04-27
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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