A database of fish fauna in Kitakyushu metropolitan area

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 2,644 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.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Itsukushima R (2025). A database of fish fauna in Kitakyushu metropolitan area. Version 1.8. Biodiversity Data Journal. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.pensoft.net/resource?r=database_fish_fauna_kitakyushu&v=1.8

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Biodiversity Data Journal. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

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Keywords

Occurrence; Observation

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

The sampling covered 100 sites in 14 water systems flowing through Kitakyushu City. Kitakyushu City is the core area of the Kitakyushu Industrial Zone, one of the four major industrial zones in Japan, with a population of approximately 900,000 people, and is an area where the river environment has deteriorated significantly due to urbanization. As a basic knowledge for the conservation and restoration of river ecosystems, we conducted an understanding of the fish fauna in Kitakyushu City over a wide area.

Taxonomic Coverage

The species found belonged to the following orders: Cypriniformes (15 species), Perciformes (12 species), Siluriformes (3 species), Anguilliformes (1 species), Beloniformes (1 species), Mugiliformes (1 species), and Osmeriformes (1 species). The families were Cyprinidae (12), Gobiidae (6 species), Cobitidae (3 species), Centrarchidae (2 species), Adrianichthyidae (1 species), Amblycipitidae (1 species), Anguillidae (1 species), Bagridae (1 species), Channidae (1 species), Lateolabracidae (1 species), Mugilidae (1 species), Odontobutidae (1 species), Osmeridae (1 species), Siluridae (1 species), and Sinipercidae (1 species).

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

No Description available

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

The fish survey was conducted using a pulsed DC Smith-Root Model LR-24 backpack electrofisher (Smith-Root Inc., Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.) at each habitat (rapid, run, pool, glide, slack, and backwater) of the 100 stations.

Method step description:

1. We recorded occurrence data, which were identified on-site and in the laboratory according to Kawanabe and Mizuno (1989) and Seno (2007).

Additional Metadata