Atlas of Danish Fishes

Peter Rask Møller1

1 Natural History Museum of Denmark, , Denmark

Corresponding author(s): Peter Rask Møller (pdrmoller@snm.ku.dk)

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Resource Citation

Atlas of Danish Fishes, freshwater fishes.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Occurrence, Freshwater fishes, Denmark, Atlas survey

Project details

Project title: Atlas of Danish Fishes
Personnel: Peter Rask Møller
Funding: The Aage V. Jensen Foundations fund the project.

Data published through GBIF: http://danbif.au.dk/ipt/resource?r=danishfishatlas

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Fish
Taxonomic ranks
Superclass: Agnatha
Class: Chondrichthyes, Actinopterygii
Common names: Jawless fish, Cartilaginous fish, Ray-finned fish

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Denmark
Coordinates: 54°28'12''N and 57°52'12''N Latitude; 7°18'36''E and 15°32'24''E Longitude 

Methods

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Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Atlas of Danish Fishes
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://danbif.au.dk/ipt/archive.do?r=danishfishatlas
Publication date of data: 2016-12-20
Language: Danish
Licences of use: This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode">Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License</a>.

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2014-05-02
Hierarchy level: Dataset