Description
Tanzania is a country that is located in East Africa that is noted for its vast wilderness. It is renowned for its safari landscapes, stunning rainforests and Mt. Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain in the world. The country's vast wildness, rainforests, rivers and lakes make it a natural home for many different species of native and endemic amphibian species, many of which are in danger. There are many efforts that are being done to help the native amphibians of Tanzania, many of which are endangered species. As can be seen in the case of the Kihansi Spray Toad there are efforts underway nationally and internationally to have breeding programs in place to help bring up the population and try to save species that are endangered.
Data Records
The data in this checklist 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 89 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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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Sokoine University of Agriculture, Department of Ecosystems and Conservation. 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: 99c42e58-e4f4-4afd-853e-bc5588e04c8d. Sokoine University of Agriculture, Department of Ecosystems and Conservation publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Tanzania Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Checklist; Endemic; Amphibian; Tanzania
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Geographic Coverage
Tanzania is a country in eastern Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands at the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to the south; Zambia to the southwest; and Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, is in north-eastern Tanzania.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-7.885, 30.938], North East [-2.021, 37.046] |
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Project Data
Tanzania is internationally recognised as a key country for the conservation of African biological diversity. Its amphibian numbers about 130 amphibians, many of them strictly endemic and included in the “IUCN” Red lists of different countries.
| Title | A checklist of endemic amphibian species of Tanzania |
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| Funding | Bamboo Innovation and Nature Preservation Organization (BINAPO), Tanzania https://www.binapo.org/ |
| Study Area Description | Tanzania is a country in eastern Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands at the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to the south; Zambia to the southwest; and Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, is in north-eastern Tanzania. |
| Design Description | Amphibian ecological survey |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 99c42e58-e4f4-4afd-853e-bc5588e04c8d |
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| https://cloud.gbif.org/bid/resource?r=amphibians |