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Porpoises (NRM)
Citation
Swedish Museum of Natural History: Porpoises (NRM), 2013-09-11. Accessed via http://www.gbif.org/dataset/6aa7c400-0c66-11dd-84d2-b8a03c50a862 on yyyy-mm-dd https://doi.org/10.15468/yrxfxp

Access data
Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
This database is about observations of porpoises around Sweden.

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 > Mammals
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · ANE, Baltic · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Marine mammals · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · Sweden · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Baltic Sea · Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) · Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) · Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758)

Geographical coverage
Baltic Sea [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 9,6326; MinLat: 54,65 - MaxLong: 20,3; MaxLat: 69,5 [WGS84]

Taxonomic coverage
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) [WoRMS]
Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]

Parameter
Animal sightings

Contributors
Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM), moredata creator

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more


Data type: Data
Data origin: Research
Release date: 2014-04-30
Metadatarecord created: 2011-02-14
Information last updated: 2026-01-26
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