Description
Red Data Book is a book describing information on endangered wildlife, including species names, ecology, distribution, current status, and factors of population decline. In 2023, Toba City published a Red Data Book listing 429 endangered marine species inhabiting the coastal and estuarine areas around Toba City. The book describes the endangered categories of the listed species according to the degree of threat of extinction and the causes of population decline. In addition to the scientific information, the book includes many pictures of underwater surveys and seascapes, history and culture between local people and the sea, and sea-related folklore in the Toba area as column articles of the book. Unique feature of the Toba Red Data Book is that it specializes in marine organisms including algae or off-shore specie, and evaluate the vulnerability of marine species at the prefectural level. This dataset contains background data collected to evaluate vulnerability of the species in the Toba Red Data Book, and the data were quality controlled and transformed to comply with the Darwin Core, OBIS Schema.
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 746 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.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Toba city (2024) Endangered species listed in the Toba city Marine Red Data Book 2023. Available at https://doi.org/10.48518/00026. Accessed on YYYY-MM-DD.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan. 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: bbbebe9f-6dd5-41b3-a314-3877920d26f2. National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Japan.
Keywords
Occurrence; Occurrence
Contacts
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | bbbebe9f-6dd5-41b3-a314-3877920d26f2 |
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| https://science-net.kahaku.go.jp/ipt2/resource?r=jobis-toba_city_redlist |