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Cetaceo_Ecuador_Project_SIBIMAP

Latest version published by cpps on Nov 4, 2019 cpps

This database contains the sightings of marine mammals observed in Ecuador (includes the Galapagos Islands), the data comes from the records delivered by suppliers to the SIBIMAP Project.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 565 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

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Data as a DwC-A file download 565 records in English (21 KB) - Update frequency: unknown
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Versions

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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is cpps. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

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Keywords

Occurrence; sightings; cetaceans; Observation

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Mónica Machuca
Technical Assistant
CPPS EC

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Mónica Machuca

Who filled in the metadata:

Mónica Machuca

Geographic Coverage

Ecuador, South Pacific Ocean

Bounding Coordinates South West [-4.741, -96.855], North East [1.318, -78.486]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Family  Delphinidae
Genus  Balaenoptera
Species  Megaptera novaeangliae (humpback whale),  Physeter macrocephalus,  Kogia sima (dawrf sperm whale),  Globicephala macrorhynchus,  Balaenoptera physalus (shortfinned pilot whale or blackfish),  Tursiops truncatus (bottlenose dolphin),  Stenella coeruleoalba (striped dolhin),  Delphinus delphis,  Stenella attenuata,  Orcinus orca

Temporal Coverage

Start Date 1993-05-12
Start Date / End Date 2001-09-17 / 2001-10-08
Start Date / End Date 1995-04-24 / 2007-03-10
Start Date / End Date 1963-05-08 / 1964-02-23
Start Date / End Date 1996-06-08 / 2003-10-04

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Loesch,H. 1966. Observacion de Ballenas en Areas Ecuatorianas. Informe de datos, mayo de 1963 y enero - febrero de 1964. Boletin Cientifico. Instituto Nacional de Pesca. 1: 1- 18.
  2. Felix, F., B. Haase and J. Samaniego. 1995. Primeros registros de la orca pigmea Feresa attenuata (Cetacea, Delphinidae) y del cachalote enano Kogia simus (Cetacea, Physeteridae) en Ecuador continental.
  3. Clarke R, F Félix, O Paliza & P Brtnik. 2002. Ballenas y delfines observados por la expedición Ballenas Libres durante el crucero oceanográfico CO-II-01 entre Guayaquil y las Islas Galápagos del 17 de septiembre al 9 de octubre de 2001. Acta Oceanográfica del Pacífico, INOCAR, Ecuador 11: 173-180.
  4. Félix F & Ben Hasse. 2005. Distribution of humpback whales along the coast of Ecuador and management implications. J Cetacean Res Manag 7:21–31
  5. Felix, F., D. Palacios, S.K. Salazar, S. Caballero, B. Haase and J. Falconi. (In press). The 2005 Galapagos humpback whale expedition: a first attempt to assess and characterize the population in the archipelago. Journal of Cetacean Research and Manageme