Dataset

Western Australian Museum, Crustacea Specimens, Ningaloo Reef - Northwest Cape, Northwest Australia, 1920-2004

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This dataset comprises records of marine crustacea specimens in the Western Australia Museum's Ningaloo Crustacea database. There are 918 records of 332 discrete taxa in this dataset. The specimens were collected between 1920 and 2004 in the region adjacent to Ningaloo Reef, a 260 km coral reef off the coast of North West Cape in NW Western Australia, in water depths ranging from 0 to 850 meters.

Citation: WA Museum - Ningaloo Crustacea database

Published: June 08, 2022 at 06:14

URL: https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=wam_ningaloo_crustacea

864
occurrence records
260
taxa
163
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
eventDate 8
0.9%
maximumDepthInMeters 674
78.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 539
62.4%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 539
62.4%
ON_LAND 64
7.4%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 13
1.5%

Measurement types

DNA derived data