Dataset

Western Australian Museum Marine Invertebrate Collection (1904-2018)

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The Western Australian Museum’s Marine Invertebrates Section comprises specimens from many aquatic animals including Cnidaria, ascidians, Bryozoa, Brachiopoda, ctenophores, Foraminifera and others! Data downloaded from ALA and taxa matched to the World Register of Marine Species

Citation: (2023): Western Australian Museum Marine Invertebrate Collection (1904-2018). v1.2. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Dataset/Occurrence. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=wam_marine_inverts&v=1.2

Published: June 28, 2023 at 03:23

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

28,834
occurrence records
2,407
taxa
1,522
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 28,834
100.0%
decimalLatitude 873
3.0%
decimalLongitude 873
3.0%
eventDate 5,784
20.1%
maximumDepthInMeters 28,834
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 28,834
100.0%
occurrenceStatus 250
0.9%
scientificNameID 426 11
1.5%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 28,834
100.0%
ON_LAND 3,074
10.7%
NO_COORD 873
3.0%
NO_MATCH 315
1.1%
MARINE_UNSURE 14
0.0%
NOT_MARINE 9
0.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 7
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data