Description
This is the first confirmed record of Hellobdella europaea in the South Pacific region. The species is considered to be invasive in Europe, south east Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
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 57 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:
Rashni B, Brown K (2021): Hellobdella europaea occurrence in Fiji. v1. The University of the South Pacific. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=heuropaea_fiji_usp&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 (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 73805fe4-f550-404f-9353-18f83a265c2e. 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
Occurrence; leech; introduced; freshwater
Contacts
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- Point Of Contact
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- Curator ●
- Originator
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7233-0795
Geographic Coverage
The island of Viti Levu in Fiji.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-18.646, 176.88], North East [-17.099, 178.945] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The freshwater leech Hellobdella europaea
| Species | Hellobdella europaea |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2015-01-01 / 2020-01-01 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Addressing Oceania’s freshwater biodiversity data deficiency by mobilizing Melanesian datasets |
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| Identifier | BID-PA2020-010-REG |
The personnel involved in the project:
Sampling Methods
Kick-netting
| Study Extent | Island of Viti Levu, in the Provinces of Ba and Nadroga-Navosa. |
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Method step description:
- To be described.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=heuropaea_fiji_usp |
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