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A database of freshwater macroinvertebrate occurrence records across Cuba #330

Open kcopas opened 1 year ago

kcopas commented 1 year ago

Torres-Cambas, Y., Megna, Y.S., Salazar-Salina, J.C. et al. A database of freshwater macroinvertebrate occurrence records across Cuba. Sci Data 10, 169 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02088-0

Here we present a database of georeferenced occurrence records of four freshwater invertebrate taxa groups across Cuba, namely flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida), insects (Ephemeroptera, Odonata, Hemiptera, Trichoptera, Coleoptera, Diptera), crabs and shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda), and mollusks (Mollusca). We collated the geographic occurrence information from scientific literature, unpublished field records, museum collections and online databases. The database, comprising 6292 records of 457 species at 1075 unique localities, is organized in 32 fields that contain the information about the taxonomic classification of each recorded species, the sex and life stage of collected individuals; the geographic coordinates, location, author and date of the record and a reference to the original data source.

Seems a pity that mentions GBIF, uses 29 DwC-compliant fields and the gbifId, and still winds up in Figshare—but Scientific Data seems committed to this kind of oucome, 24/7/365.

CecSve commented 1 year ago

The paper uses GBIF and iNaturalist research grade data to construct a DB of freshwater macroinvertebrate occurrence records for Cuba. So I would think it is not data we would need to mobilize @kcopas?