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. 2013 Sep 16;(1):e961. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.1.e961

Data set 1.

Column label Column description
recordNumber A unique identifier for the record within the data set or collection.
scientificName The scientific name of the taxon, including authorship.
scientificNameAuthorship The authorship information for the scientificName formatted according to the conventions of the applicable nomenclaturalCode.
acceptedNameUsage The full name, with authorship and date information if known, of the currently valid (zoological) taxon.
taxonRemarks Comments or notes about the taxon or name.
specificEpithet The species epithet of the scientificName.
identificationQualifier A brief phrase or a standard term ("cf.", "aff.") to express the determiner's doubts about the Identification.
genus The full scientific name of the genus in which the taxon is classified.
family The full scientific name of the family in which the taxon is classified.
order The full scientific name of the orde in which the taxon is classified.
class The full scientific name of the class in which the taxon is classified.
phylum The full scientific name of the phylum in which the taxon is classified.
kingdom The full scientific name of the kingdom in which the taxon is classified.
fieldNumber Denotes the code of each replicate unit.
fieldNotes Notes about this occurrence record.
EventDate The sampling date.
verbatimEventDate The verbatim expression of the sampling date.
year The sampling year.
month The sampling month.
day The sampling day.
locality The specific location where the sample was taken.
municipality The full, unabbreviated name of the next smaller administrative region than county (city, municipality, etc.) in which the sampling location occurs.
island The name of the island on or near which the sampling location occurs.
country The name of the country in which the sampling location occurs.
countryCode The standard code of the country in which the sampling location occurs.
continent The name of the continent in which the sampling location occurs.
waterBody The name of the water body in which the sampling location occurs.
decimalLatitude The geographic latitude (in decimal degrees, using the spatial reference system given in geodeticDatum) of the geographic center of a Location. Positive values are north of the Equator, negative values are south of it. Legal values lie between -90 and 90, inclusive.
decimalLongitude The geographic longitude (in decimal degrees, using the spatial reference system given in geodeticDatum) of the geographic center of a Location. Positive values are east of the Greenwich Meridian, negative values are west of it. Legal values lie between -180 and 180, inclusive.
GeoreferenceSources A list (concatenated and separated) of maps, gazetteers, or other resources used to georeference the Location, described specifically enough to allow anyone in the future to use the same resources.
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters The horizontal distance (in meters) from the given decimalLatitude and decimalLongitude describing the smallest circle containing the whole of the sampling location.
habitat A category or description of the habitat from which the samples were collected.
minimumDepthInMeters The lesser depth of a range of depth below the local surface, in meters.
maximumDepthInMeters The greater depth of a range of depth below the local surface, in meters.
samplingProtocol The description of the method or protocol used for sample collection.
basisOfRecord The specific nature of the data record, as described in http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/type-vocabulary/index.htm.
preparations Preparations and preservation methods for a specimen.
individualCount The number of individuals in a replicate sample unit. In cases where replicates had been pooled, the average abundances are not included under "individualCount" but under "dynamicProperties"
dynamicProperties Includes here as the only attribute "meanAbundance". These are the average abundances of those samples where the replicates had been pooled.
recordedBy A list (concatenated and separated) of names of people responsible for recording the original Occurrence.
identifiedBy A list (concatenated and separated) of names of people, groups, or organizations who identified the specimen.
dateIdentified The date on which the specimen was identified.
identificationReferences A list (concatenated and separated) of references (publication, global unique identifier, URI) used for identifying the specimen.
institutionCode The name (or acronym) in use by the institution having custody of the object(s) or information referred to in the record.
institutionID An identifier for the institution having custody of the object(s) or information referred to in the record.
datasetID An identifier for the set of data.
datasetName The name identifying the data set from which the record was derived.
rights Information about rights held in and over the resource (copyright, intellectual property, etc.).
rightsHolder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource.
id A unique identifier for the record within the data set or collection, auto-incrementing number automatically added by the system.
taxonID Aphia ID (Unique Identifier for the taxon within the World Register of Marine Species - www.marinespecies.org)