Occurrence records of southern African fish biodiversity

Occurrence
Latest version published by Test Organization #1 on May 19, 2026 Test Organization #1
Publication date:
19 May 2026
Published by:
Test Organization #1
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Specimen-records (of physical specimens) of fishes, mostly from southern Africa and surrounding oceans, and elsewhere in the world.

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 195,211 records.

2 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.

Occurrence (core)
195211
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
195211
Multimedia 
32764

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

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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Test Organization #1. 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: 99588c11-bf70-47e2-af1a-ac2a8af61653.  Test Organization #1 publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Secretariat.

Keywords

Occurrence; Occurrence

Contacts

Willem Coetzer
  • Point Of Contact
  • Biodiversity Information Manager
South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
  • Somerset Street
6139 Grahamstown
Eastern cape
ZA
  • +27466035841
Willem Coetzer
  • Point Of Contact

Geographic Coverage

Worldwide

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Class Actinopterygii, Cephalasipomorphi, Cephalochordata, Dipnoi, Elasmobranchii, Myxini, Sarcopterygii

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1880-01-01 / 2016-01-01

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 10.15468/pv7vds
99588c11-bf70-47e2-af1a-ac2a8af61653
https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=test-multimedia-saiab