Dataset Details - Irish Marine Turtle Records
A database of records of marine turtle sightings, strandings, captures and entanglements in Irish waters encompassing records from Berrow & King, 2009, Irish records submitted to Marine Environmental Monitoring in the UK, and records from other sources.
24/11/2011
23/04/2024
To collate all valid records of marine turtles in a single database
Compilation and review of both published and unpublished records
The coastal waters of the island of Ireland and off shore territorial waters
1840 to 2023
The data have all been reviewed and more recent sighting were validated by Gabriel King and/or Rod Penrose
Records 1840 – 2005 Published as King, G.L. & Berrow, S.D. (2009) Marine turtles in Irish waters. Irish Naturalists' Journal, Special Supplement 2009.
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Open (Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0)
Gabriel King & Simon Berrow, Rod Penrose and Other Sources, Irish Marine Turtle Records, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, accessed 24 April 2024, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/114>
Dataset species distribution
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of species recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50Km
Marine Map - 50Km
Distribution of the number of species recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).Dataset record distribution
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of records within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50Km
Marine Map - 50Km
Distribution of the number of records within each 50km grid square (WGS84).Dataset Contacts
Dave Wall
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Records per year
Species per year
Date Statistics
| Resolution | No. records |
|---|---|
| Day Range | 743 |
| Day | 437 |
1884
2023
Record Statistics
1180
421
7
0
| Resolution | No. records |
|---|---|
| 100m | 1180 |
| 1km | 0 |
| 2km | 0 |
| 10km | 0 |
| 50km | 0 |
Dataset Attributes
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Abundance | Measure of abundance of the organism recorded |
| Alive or dead | Determination if organism was alive or dead |
| County | Name of administrative county within which the record was made |
| Record comment | A comment associated with any individual record |
| Source | Original source of data |
| Type of sighting | A description of the type of sighting made |
Recorded Species
| TaxonId | PrefnameTaxonId | Name | Authority | Group | Rank | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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