Steuer A. 1939. The fishery grounds near Alexandria. XIX Mollusca. Notes and Memoirs No 33

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Alternate Identifier: 10.15468/g1dstl

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Publication Date: 2020-05-28

Title: Steuer A. 1939. The fishery grounds near Alexandria. XIX Mollusca. Notes and Memoirs No 33

Abstract: This is a historical dataset that was published in 1939 by Ad. Steuer and concerns of the faunistic report on the Mollusca collected during the floristical and faunistical survey on the coasts near Alexandria mainly with the vessel “El Hoot”. This dataset covers the time span of 1/4/1933 to 18/11/1933 and contains occurrence data of Molluscs in the coasts of Alexandria, Egypt. For some species, the dataset contains individual counts, sex, life stage and body length. The digitization of this dataset was done by LifewatchGreece team.

Dataset Language: ENGLISH

Dataset Creator: Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture - Stamatina Nikolopoulou (Data Manager)

Metadata Provider: University of Crete - Irini Tsikopoulou (Data Manager)

Associated Party: CONTENT_PROVIDER

University of Crete - Panagiotis Dimitriou (Data Manager)

Dataset Contact: University of Crete - Irini Tsikopoulou (Data Manager)

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Metadata

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description: Mollusc species were found in about 150 benthic stations in the coasts of Alexandria, Egypt. Some species with pelagic larvae were also found in planktonic stations.

Bounding Box

West Bounding Coordinate: 29.659

East Bounding Coordinate: 30.426

North Bounding Coordinate: 31.473

South Bounding Coordinate: 31.054

Temporal Coverage

Range of Dates

Begin Date: 1933-04-01

End Date: 1933-11-18

Taxonomic Coverage

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name: Phylum

Taxonomic Rank Value: Mollusca

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Distribution

Online

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Additional Metadata

Metadata

GBIF Metadata Block

Date Stamp: 2026-04-14T08:24:07Z

Citation: Tsikopoulou Irini, Dimitriou D. Panagiotis and Nikolopoulou Stamatina (2016). Digitization of The fishery grounds near Alexandria. XIX Mollusca. Notes and Memoirs No 33. Hydrobiology and Fisheries Directorate, 1939, Egypt https://doi.org/10.15468/g1dstl accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-04-18. accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-04-18. accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-04-14.

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• Project

Title: Digitization of Historical Dataset-Egypt Expedition

Personnel

Individual Name

Given Name: Irini

Surname: Tsikopoulou

Role: ADMINISTRATIVE_POINT_OF_CONTACT

Abstract

Funding: LifewatchGreece

• Method

Method Step

Description

Adolf Steuer.Preliminary report.The Fishery Grounds Near Alexandria. Notes and Memories No 8. http://ipt.medobis.eu/resource?r=egyptexpeditionpreliminaryrepor

http://ipt.medobis.eu/resource?r=egyptexpeditionbottomsampler

Body length measurements will be uploaded soon

Sampling

Study Extent: This dataset is based on a faunistic report compiled from the expedition by the Fisheries Research Directorate in fishery grounds near Alexandria at 1933.

Sampling Description: This dataset is only a part from a large expedition that took place in the coasts near Alexandria. The samples were collected by A. Steuer. For bottom samples almost exclusively a dredge with 20x70 cm opening was used. A single catch was made in a depth of 20 m with a large otter trawl in the eastern part of the Bay of Abukir. For plankton samples, vertical hauls were made using medium sized nets with buckets of celluloids with gauze bottom. In general, the motor-launch of the Marine Laboratory "El Hoot" was used for dredging and a rowing boat in shallow water. All excursions were one-day trips. After the expedition, taxonomic identification of the samples was done by specialists. The results of this expedition were published in separate for each taxonomic group volumes. Thus, sampling methods were described in a preliminary report by A. Steuer. Taxonomic identification of mollusc species was made by J.R. Le B. Tomlin, G.H. Crawford and S. Jaeckel.