Description
Species occurrence of pelagic and deepwater fish species within the Kingdom of Tonga.
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 31 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.
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:
Ministry of Fisheries, Offshore Department, Science Division, Government of Tonga
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Vava'u Environmental Protection Association. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 99cccf3d-791b-4e06-bd3e-a0cdf230242e. Vava'u Environmental Protection Association publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme.
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation
Contacts
- Metadata Provider
Geographic Coverage
Kingdom of Tonga
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-21.719, -175.605], North East [-14.924, -172.749] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Class | Actinopterygii, Elasmobranchii |
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Project Data
Capacity and resources for managing data about alien and invasive species (A&IS) is generally limited. But such limitations are even more prevelant among the Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs), making it imperative to promote collaboration between the diverse and fragmented network of organizations that hold such data.
| Title | Regional and national alien and invasive species data mobilization and capacity building in the Pacific |
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| Identifier | BID-PA2016-0005-REG |
| Funding | Funding for the publication of this dataset was provided by the GBIF BID Programme. |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Point Of Contact
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=tonga_offshore_fish |
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