Red Data Book is a book describing information on endangered wildlife, including species names, ecology, distribution, current status, and factors of population decline. In 2023, Toba City published a Red Data Book listing 429 endangered marine species inhabiting the coastal and estuarine areas around Toba City. The book describes the endangered categories of the listed species according to the degree of threat of extinction and the causes of population decline. In addition to the scientific information, the book includes many pictures of underwater surveys and seascapes, history and culture between local people and the sea, and sea-related folklore in the Toba area as column articles of the book. Unique feature of the Toba Red Data Book is that it specializes in marine organisms including algae or off-shore specie, and evaluate the vulnerability of marine species at the prefectural level. This dataset contains background data collected to evaluate vulnerability of the species in the Toba Red Data Book, and the data were quality controlled and transformed to comply with the Darwin Core, OBIS Schema.
此資源出現紀錄的資料已發佈為達爾文核心集檔案（DwC-A），其以一或多組資料表構成分享生物多樣性資料的標準格式。
核心資料表包含 446 筆紀錄。
此 IPT 存放資料以提供資料儲存庫服務。資料與資源的詮釋資料可由「下載」單元下載。「版本」表格列出此資源的其它公開版本，以便利追蹤其隨時間的變更。
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Toba city (2024) Endangered species listed in the Toba city Marine Red Data Book 2023. Available at https://doi.org/10.48518/00026. Accessed on YYYY-MM-DD.
marine, harvested by iOBIS
