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Metrics of original descriptions of 600 randomly selected marine accepted species from the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
Citable as data publication
Bouchet, P.; Decock, W.; Lonneville, B.; Vanhoorne, B.; Vandepitte, L.; National Natural History Museum Paris (MNHN): France; Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ): Belgium; (2022): Metrics of original descriptions of 600 randomly selected marine accepted species from the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Marine Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.14284/564
Contact:
Vandepitte, Leen
Availability: 
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
600 marine accepted species were randomly selected from all accepted marine species described in 2013-2017. For each species, a number of metrics were extracted from their original descriptions. These metrics included information on their ecological and geographical origin, the context and method(s) of their discovery, their scientific publications and their authorship.
Scope
Themes:
Biology
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Biodiversity, Taxonomy, World Oceans, Animalia, Chromista, Fungi, Plantae
Geographical coverage
World Oceans [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
2013 - 2017
Contributors
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Metadatarecord created: 2022-04-14
Information last updated: 2022-04-14
