Description
To address the poorly known aspects of freshwater fauna biodiversity in the Fiji Islands, a study of freshwater and estuarine fish was carried out from 2002 to 2004.
This dataset is the result of a Master of Science thesis conducted by David Boseto at the University of the South Pacific, in Suva, Fiji. The fish surveys were carried out in 66 sites in seven watersheds on the islands of Viti Levu, Vanua Levu and Taveuni.
11 new records and a new genus were added to the known freshwater fish checklist of Fiji.
Data Records
The data in this sampling event 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 97 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
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.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Boseto D (2023): Fijian freshwater and estuarine fishes survey 2002 - 2004. v1.0. The University of the South Pacific. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=fiji_freshwater_fish_boseto&v=1.0
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is The University of the South Pacific. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 702fcb52-ba2b-4ed1-9848-24a594025603. The University of the South Pacific publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Samplingevent; Fiji; freshwater; fish
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
The islands of Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, and Taveuni in Fiji.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-18.73, -179.604], North East [-15.961, 177.012] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Freshwater and estuarine occurring fish species from the following Orders
| Order | Anguilliformes, Beloniformes, Clupeiformes, Cypriniformes, Cyprinodontiformes, Gobiformes, Gobiiformes, Mugiliformes, Perciformes, Scorpaeniformes, Syngnathiformes, Tetraodontiformes |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2022-10-20 / 2004-10-10 |
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Project Data
Freshwater biodiversity data is under reported for the Oceanic islands due to lack of trained resident specialists, misreported dataset and or unpublished dataset mostly limited to grey literature. This can be improved by training freshwater project related representatives from targeted Oceania countries for collation and updating of the existing data on GBIF database. The proposed project aims to directly engage the pool of freshwater experts in the Melanesian region to build capacity on regional freshwater biota data updating and mobilization. This will then contribute to inland wetland policy strengthening, national level ramsar commitments, National Biodiversity Strategic Assessment and Planning (NBSAP), Endangered and Protected Species (EPS) ACT Bill, Environment Management Act in Fiji for example, and eventually near future freshwater species and ecosystem Red Listing Assessments. The targeted countries are Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea.
| Title | Addressing Oceania’s freshwater biodiversity data deficiency by mobilizing Melanesian datasets |
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| Identifier | BID-PA2020-010-REG |
| Funding | European Union. GBIF. |
The personnel involved in the project:
Sampling Methods
In this survey, gill net, cast net, beach seine net, fine mesh net, pole seine net, hand net, spear gun, electro-fisher machine, visual observation, and hand gleaning were the techniques employed to document freshwater fish during the period of October 20th, 2002 to October 10th, 2004. Freshwater fish surveys were carried out in 66 sites in seven watersheds on the islands of Viti Levu, Vanua Levu and Taveuni. There are 40 sites in Viti Levu, 5 sites in Vanua Levu and 21 sites on Taveuni.
| Study Extent | Rivers, streams and creeks on the islands of Viti Levu, Vanua Levu and Taveuni. |
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| Quality Control | The data mobilization process included using of the SiB Colombia ValTaxonomicAPIGBIF_ValTaxonomicaAPIGBIF script on OpenRefine to validate scientificNames. Coordinates were converted to decimal degrees using the Canadensys coordinate conversion online tool. |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=fiji_freshwater_fish_boseto |
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