database_fish_urban_tsurumi

Rei Itsukushima1

1 Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 G5-4 Nagatsuda-cho, Midori-ku, 226-8502, Yokohama, Japan

Corresponding author(s): Rei Itsukushima (itsukushima.r.aa@m.titech.ac.jp)

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Abstract

The database is sampling results of fish fauna in highly urbanized river (Tsurumi River Basin, Kanagawa, Japan)

Keywords: Fish fauna; Urban stream;

Project details

Project title: Database of fish fauna in a highly urbanized river (Tsurumi River Basin, Kanagawa, Japan)
Personnel: Rei Itsukushima
Funding: This work was supported by a JSPS KAKENHI grant [grant number JP19H02250]
Study area descriptions/descriptor: This study was conducted on the Tsurumi River, which flows through Tokyo and Kanagawa prefectures in Japan (length of the main river channel: 43 km, basin area: 235 km2). The Tsurumi River flows through a large metropolitan area, and the land use in the basin is approximately 85% urban and 15% forest and farmland, with overcrowded urban areas distributed throughout the basin.
Design description: 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 71 stations. The length of the survey section was one reach (approximately ten times the width of the river channel).

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.pensoft.net/resource?r=database_fish_urban_tsurumi

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: The species that were found belonged to the following orders:  Cypriniformes (13 species), Perciformes (9 species), Siluriformes (2 species), Beloniformes (1 species), Cyprinodontiformes (1 species), Mugiliformes (1 species), and Osmeriformes (1 species). The families were Cyprinidae (10), Gobiidae (7), Cobitidae (3), Centrarchidae (2), Adrianichthyidae (1), Bagridae (1), Mugilidae (1), Osmeridae (1), Poeciliidae (1), and Siluridae (1).
Taxonomic ranks
Genus: Misgurnus, Rhinogobius　
Species: Rhynchocypris lagowskii steindachneri, Plecoglossus altivelis, Gymnogobius urotaenia, Zacco platypus, Pseudogobio esocinus, Nipponocypris temminckii, Carassius auratus langsdorfii, Poecilia reticulata, Cyprinus carpio, Rhinogobius giurinus, Cobitis biwae, Rhinogobius nagoyae, Gymnogobius petschiliensis, Gnathopogon elongatus elongatus, Tridentiger obscurus, Silurus asotus, Tridentiger brevispinis, Micropterus salmoides, Lepomis macrochirus, Mugil cephalus, Oryzias latipes, Pungtungia herzi, Pseudorasbora parva

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The Tsurumi River, which flows through Tokyo and Kanagawa prefectures in Japan, has been urbanized since the 1950s, and 85% of the river basin is now comprises urban areas. This data reports the results of a survey of the fish fauna of a tributary river for which information is lacking.
Coordinates: 35°28'48''N and 35°36'36''N Latitude; 139°28'48''E and 139°39'36''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: August 20, 2021 - October 5, 2021

Temporal coverage: December 28, 2021 - February 8, 2022

Methods

Method step description: We recorded occurrence data, which were identified on-site and in the laboratory according to Kawanabe and Mizuno (1989) and Seno (2007).
Study extent description: The investigation of fish fauna was conducted at 71 stations in the Tsurumi River basin (Fig. 1), mainly in environmentally degraded tributaries where data on fish fauna has not yet been collected. The survey was conducted during summer (August 20 to October 5, 2021) and winter (December 28 to February 8, 2022).
Sampling description: 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 71 stations.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive database_fish_urban_tsurumi
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.pensoft.net/archive.do?r=database_fish_urban_tsurumi
Publication date of data: 2022-05-23
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2022-02-21
Hierarchy level: Dataset