Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: online information system: Cocos Island: Fishes Checklist

D. Ross Robertson; Gerald R. Allen

doi:10.25607/bjlwjp

Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: online information system: Cocos Island: Fishes Checklist

Citation

Robertson D R, Allen G R, Earl C (2023). Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: online information system: Cocos Island: Fishes Checklist. Version 2.1. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/bjlwjp accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-14.

Description

Mobilized species checklist from the Shorefishes of the Tropical Easter Pacific, specifically the confirmed (species collected within the park boundaries) species list from Cocos Island National Park

Purpose

These data were made accessible through UNESCO's eDNA Expeditions project to mobilize available marine species and occurrence datasets from World Heritage Sites.

Sampling Description

Method steps

See Github Project and R Notebook for dataset construction methods

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Fishes

Agnatha
rank: Superclass
Chondrichthyes
rank: unranked
Osteichthyes
rank: unranked

Geographic Coverages

Cocos Island National Park

Bibliographic Citations

D R Robertson and Gerald R Allen. 2015. Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: online information system. Version 2.0 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panamá. - https://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/sftep/en/pages

Contacts

D. Ross Robertson
originator
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Gerald R. Allen
originator
Conservation International

Chandra Earl
metadata author
position: eDNA Scientific Officer
UNESCO
email: c.earl@unesco.org

Chandra Earl
processor
position: eDNA Scientific Officer
UNESCO
email: c.earl@unesco.org

OBIS Secretariat
administrative point of contact
position: Secretariat
OBIS
email: helpdesk@obis.org