Atlas of Danish Fishes

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Latest version published by Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark on Dec 20, 2016 Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark
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Description

The national survey "Atlas of Danish Fishes" began in 2006. The project is carried out as collaboration between the Natural History Museum of Denmark (University of Copenhagen) and DTU Aqua (National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)). In the years 2006-2009, the survey focused on gathering information on freshwater fishes. As a result of the first phase of the project, a comprehensive book (in Danish) was published in 2012: Atlas of Danish freshwater fishes, ISBN-13: 9788787519748. Since 2009, mapping of saltwater fishes has first priority. Data is still collected on fish species occurrences in all Danish waters - both fresh and salt water. The Aage V. Jensen Foundations fund the project. This dataset presents general occurrences of species of Danish fresh water fish, recorded in a given UTM quadrant, in a given year. UTM quadrants have been converted to a decimal degree latitude-longitude center-point with a coordinate uncertainty of 5km.

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Atlas of Danish Fishes, freshwater fishes.

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 6995b180-5755-499d-bf3e-1c8d83b42ac3.  Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by DanBIF - Danish Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence; Freshwater fishes; Denmark; Atlas survey

Contacts

Peter Rask Møller
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Associate Professor
Natural History Museum of Denmark
DK

Geographic Coverage

Denmark

Bounding Coordinates South West [54.47, 7.31], North East [57.87, 15.54]

Taxonomic Coverage

Fish

Superclass Agnatha (Jawless fish)
Class Chondrichthyes (Cartilaginous fish), Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fish)

Project Data

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Title Atlas of Danish Fishes
Funding The Aage V. Jensen Foundations fund the project.

The personnel involved in the project:

Peter Rask Møller
  • Point Of Contact

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 6995b180-5755-499d-bf3e-1c8d83b42ac3
http://danbif.au.dk/ipt/resource?r=danishfishatlas