FishMAP: Atlas of freshwater fish in southern and eastern Africa

This data-set comprises species occurrence records of the fresh-water fish of the African continent. It is a collection of data from citizen science contributions. Records range from 1988 to present. FishMAP is a Virtual Museum project aiming to: (1) map the current distribution of the fresh water fish occurring in Africa, tentatively, the FishMAP region includes Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia and Namibia and the countries to the south and east of them; and (2) to serve as a repository of all existing distribution data for this group in the geographic extent of the project. Identification of citizen science records, based on the photos uploaded, is done by a panel of experts in the relevant taxa. All data are available to the public. Records are provided at the recorded precision, usually point coordinates. The coverage is low for South Africa and very sparse for the rest of Africa.