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Planktonic copepods from coastal and inshore waters of Tudor Creek, Mombasa (December 1984-March 1985)
Citable as data publication
Okemwa E.N.; Revis N.; Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute: Kenya; Laboratory of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Free University of Brussels: Belgium; (2016): Planktonic copepods from coastal and inshore waters of Tudor Creek, Mombasa (December 1984-March 1985). https://doi.org/10.14284/171
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Description
List of copepod species and their occurrence (presence/absence) at three stations in Tudor Creek (Mombasa) for samples taken between December 1984 and March 1985. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Polk, P. (Ed.) (1986). Kenya report. VUB: Brussel. 358 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 > Plankton > Zooplankton
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Coastal water, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Inshore waters, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Planktonic copepods, Sea regions, Species composition, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, ISW, Kenya, Mombasa, Tudor Creek, Calanoida, Copepoda, Cyclopoida, Monstrilloida, Poecilostomatoida

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 39,6558; MinLat: -4,0653 - MaxLong: 39,6835; MaxLat: -4,0281 [WGS84]
ISW, Kenya, Mombasa, Tudor Creek

Temporal coverage
December 1984 - March 1985

Taxonomic coverage
Calanoida [WoRMS]
Copepoda [WoRMS]
Cyclopoida [WoRMS]
Monstrilloida [WoRMS]
Poecilostomatoida [WoRMS]

Parameter
Presence/absence of biota

Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata manager
Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute Mombasa Centre (KMFRI), moredata creator
Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Biologie; Laboratorium voor Ecologie en Systematiek (ECOL), moredata creator

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
Historical Kenyan-Belgian research datasets (1873-1999), more
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

Publication
Based on this dataset
Polk, P. (Ed.) (1986). Kenya report. VUB: Brussel. 358 pp., more


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2016-11-10
Metadatarecord created: 2016-07-05
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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