4.20 FRESHWATER FISH DIVERSITY - RIVERS

 

Data ID

 

Description:

Diversity of freshwater fish in Namibia's rivers

 

Chapter:

4 Living Resources

 

File name:

Freshwater fish diversity rivers

 

File type:

ArcView shapefile

 

Geographical area:

Namibia

 

Keywords:

freshwater

 

 

fish

 

 

diversity

 

 

rivers

 

Notes on data, analysis and

Data on fish diversity provided by Clinton Hay of Hardap Freshwater Fish Institute, supplemented by data from Mendelsohn, J.M., el Obeid, S. and Roberts, C.S. 2000. A profile of north-central Namibia. Gamsberg MacMillan, Windhoek. Rivers map is described in metadata for Fig 2.22.

 

compilation:

for Fig 2.22.

 

Data quality and organisation

 

Positional Accuracy:

Rivers mapped at 1:1000 000 scale

 

Vector/Raster:

Vector

 

Spatial reference

 

Projection:

Geographic

 

Fields

 

Field name

Field description

 

WETLAND

Name of river or wetland

 

NO_SPECIES

Number of species

 

NO_ENDEMIC

Number of endemic species

 

Source/Distribution

 

Data Source:

Hardap Freshwater Fish Institute, MRMR

 

Distribution notes:

Unrestricted