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MSBIAS: Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas
Citation
The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2024). Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Accessed at https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias on yyyy-mm-dd. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/3123
Contact:
Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) ;
Availability: This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
A list of species in the marine waters around the British Isles and adjacent seas. more
Many applications require a list of species that are likely to be found in the marine waters around the British Isles and adjacent seas. The MSBIAS list can be used for this purpose and, furthermore, if used widely will improve the ability to exchange species data between applications. The marine area covered by this list is shown on the website. The boundaries given in the map are recognized not to represent true boundaries of species distributions however does allow operational use of a taxon list.
Many applications require a list of species that are likely to be found in the marine waters around the British Isles and adjacent seas. The MSBIAS list can be used for this purpose and, furthermore, if used widely will improve the ability to exchange species data between applications. The marine area covered by this list is shown on the website. The boundaries given in the map are recognized not to represent true boundaries of species distributions however does allow operational use of a taxon list.
This list is a subset of taxa registered in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), that was identified through data holdings of the applications "Marine Recorder" and "Unicorn", and collated under the project "Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure (PESI)".
Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Classification, Species, Taxonomy, ANE, British Isles, Animalia, Bacteria, Chromista, Fungi, Plantae, Protozoa
Geographical coverage
Temporal coverage
From 1758 on [In Progress]
Taxonomic coverage
Parameters
Taxonomy
Contributors
Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN), data creator, data owner, data manager
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), more, database developer
Related datasets
Published in:
WoRMS: World Register of Marine Species, more
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Literature research
Metadatarecord created: 2012-07-17
Information last updated: 2024-01-18