Dataset

Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection Marine Invertebrates

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The Collection of Marine Invertebrates at the Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection consists of over 47,000 dry and fluid-preserved marine invertebrates primarily from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. The majority of the specimens were collected by Research Vessels Alaminos and Gyre during the 1960's and 1970's.

Citation
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences. Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection Marine Invertebrates. 2011. Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences. Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://www.usgs.gov/obis-usa/
License
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URL
http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/resource?r=tcwc_cnidaria
Archive
http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/archive.do?r=tcwc_cnidaria

Contacts

Texas A&M University Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Texas A&M University Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences

OBIS Secretariat
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

1,819
total submitted occurrences
1,781
accepted occurrences
400
taxa
283
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 1,819
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 459
25.2%
minimumDepthInMeters 459
25.2%
occurrenceStatus 1,819
100.0%
scientificNameID 67 12
4.3%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 459
25.2%
ON_LAND 303
16.7%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 109
6.0%
NO_MATCH 38
2.1%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 29
1.6%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 26
1.4%

Measurement types

DNA derived data