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Museum Data for Malawi

Latest version published by LILONGWE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES on Jun 18, 2020 LILONGWE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES

This is specimen data for Lake Malawi

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 13 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.

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Data as a DwC-A file download 13 records in English (4 KB) - Update frequency: as needed
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Metadata as an RTF file download in English (8 KB)

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Matsimbe M, M'balaka S (2020): Museum Data for Malawi. v1.2. LILONGWE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Dataset/Occurrence. http://41.77.13.208:8081/ipt/resource?r=museumdataset&v=1.0

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is LILONGWE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has not been registered with GBIF

Keywords

Occurrence; Lake Malawi; Shire River; fish; biodiversity; Specimen

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Msekiwa Matsimbe
Project Manager
LUANAR P.O Box 219
Salim M'balaka
Research Officer
Department of Fisheries

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Msekiwa Matsimbe
Project Manager
LUANAR P.O Box 219
Salim M'balaka
Research Officer
Department of Fisheries

Who filled in the metadata:

Msekiwe Matsimbe

Who else was associated with the resource:

User
Msekiwa Matsimbe
Project Manager
LUANAR

Geographic Coverage

Dataset Covers Lake Malawi and Shire River

Bounding Coordinates South West [-16.889, 33.882], North East [-8.928, 35.947]

Taxonomic Coverage

This dataset covers fish of Lake Malawi and Shire River

Species  Barbus paludinosus,  Chilotilapia rhoadesii,  Diplotaxodon mesognathus,  Docimodus johnstonii,  Enteromius macrotaenia (Barbus),  Haplochromis placadon,  Haplochromis pleurotaenia,  Labeo cylindricus,  Maylandia zebra,  Mchenga flavimanus,  Melanochromis auratus,  Mylochromis labidodon,  Mylochromis lateristriga

Temporal Coverage

Formation Period 1957-1993

Project Data

No Description available

Title JRS Freshwater Biodiversity Project

The personnel involved in the project:

Publisher
Msekiwa Matsimbe

Sampling Methods

Electrofishing and seine nets

Study Extent Lake Malawi - Mangochi, Nkhatabay, Nsanje districts

Method step description:

  1. Data mobilization from museum specimens entered into excel. Data validation and checks.

Collection Data

Collection Name Bunda Fish Museum
Collection Name Monkeybay Fisheries Museum
Specimen preservation methods Alcohol,  Formalin

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers http://41.77.13.208:8081/ipt/resource?r=museumdataset