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. 2020 Mar 19;7:96. doi: 10.1038/s41597-020-0436-4

Table 3.

Detailed legend of the information given in each column of the 2 datasets (9 columns for the GeneralDistribution file and 22 columns for the CompleteDatabase file).

Column Name Description
General Distribution Complete Database Family.Referent.Species Family name of the referent species
Genus.Referent.Species Genus name of the referent species
Referent.Species.Name Referent species: valid scientific species name (FishBase or Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes) at the time of releasing the database
Author.Referent.Species Author’s name of the referent species
Species.Status Species status: ‘native’, ‘exotic’ or ‘unknown name at present’
Occurrence.Status Occurrence species status for native species: ‘valid’, ‘to be verified’ or ‘marine’
Major.Tributary.Name Major Amazon Tributary name
SubDrainage.Name Unique name of the sub-drainage
SubDrainage.Code Unique code of the sub-drainage
Original.Species.Name.Source Original species name in the source
Species.State State of the original species name: ‘synonym’ or ‘typing error’
Longitude.X Longitude coordinates (3 decimal rounded)
Latitude.Y Latitude coordinates (3 decimal rounded)
Data.Source Data source: ‘AmazonFish Expedition’, ‘Literature’, ‘Online Biodiversity Database’ or ‘Partners Datasets’
Biodiversity.Repository Biodiversity Repository source for the ‘Online Biodiversity Database’ source. The combination of two or more repositories mean that the museum or university collection is available from different sources: GBIF, SpeciesLink, FishNet2, iDigBio, AMNH, SiBBr, IABIN, see Table 1
Institution.Code Scientific Institution Code
Institution.Name Scientific Institution complete name
GBIF.Citation GBIF Citation of the Scientific Institution
GBIF.DOI GBIF DOI of the Scientific Institution
Literature.Reference Complete literature reference (Author, Date, Title and Scientific Journal)
Partners.Citation Citation reference of the Partner dataset
Non.Georeferenced Occurrences non-georeferenced: Sub-drainage Information (species occurrence information at the sub-drainage grain), Approximated Coordinates (species occurrence information at river or reach scales), Geographic Error (given coordinates of the site do not correspond to the sub-drainage information of the source)