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Occurrence data of dragonflies in Kenya
Version 1.1 published by National Museums of Kenya on Apr 5, 2019
We present occurrence data of dragonflies specimens at the natural history collection of the National museums of Kenya. This comprises of both historical and current data. The taxonomic information is up-to-date as the entire collection was checked by an expert of the African species prior to digitization.
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 6,024 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.
Downloads
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Data as a DwC-A file | download 6,024 records in English (147 KB) - Update frequency: unknown |
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Metadata as an EML file | download in English (10 KB) |
Metadata as an RTF file | download in English (8 KB) |
Versions
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How to cite
Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset. Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Njoroge L, Achieng J, Anale J, Kamau P, Nyambati H, Wangui E (2019): Occurrence data of dragonflies in Kenya. v1.1. National Museums of Kenya. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.museums.or.ke/ipt/resource?r=dragon&v=1.1
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is National Museums of Kenya. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: b35a84e1-9584-4240-8186-c2461c4b6a06. National Museums of Kenya publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Kenya.
Keywords
Occurrence; Dragonflies; Insects; Conservation; National Museums of Kenya; Invertebrate Zoology; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
The General Spatial area of odonata is Africa
Bounding Coordinates | South West [-37.719, -17.578], North East [37.16, 53.438] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
All species are from the order odonata at the natural history collections of the National Museums of Kenya.
Order | Odonata (Dragonflies) |
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Project Data
This is the complete occurrence data of historical records of dragonflies and damselflies at the natural history collections of the National Museums of Kenya. It includes both pinned and envelop-stored specimens.
Title | African Insect Atlas: Unleashing the potential of insects in conservation and sustainability research in Africa. |
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Identifier | BID-AF2015-0134-REG |
Funding | GBIF |
Study Area Description | The specimens are from the natural history collection of the National Museums of Kenya collected from all over the African continent |
Design Description | Specimen label data was collected into excel spread sheets following the gbif format |
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Additional Metadata
Alternative Identifiers | b35a84e1-9584-4240-8186-c2461c4b6a06 |
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http://ipt.museums.or.ke/ipt/resource?r=dragon |