Dataset

Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery - Marine Birds

OBIS Australia Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The basis of the zoological collections of the QVMAG was formed from the Launceston Mechanics' Institute, which opened in 1842. Many exotic species, mainly mounted specimens, were acquired during the early years as a result of exchanges with other museums around the world. Dr RH Green, Curator of Zoology 1961-90 was responsible for significantly increasing the size of the Tasmanian mammal and bird research collections including the range of species represented. This dataset is of marine species sourced from the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) January 2019 (https://collections.ala.org.au/public/show/co158). Taxa have been matched to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and if not then matched to the Australian Faunal Directory (AFD)

Citation: Reid C (2023): Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery - Marine Birds. v1.8. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Dataset/Occurrence. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=ala_co158&v=1.8

Published: June 28, 2023 at 03:53

URL: https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=ala_co158

Craig Reid
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery

1,406
occurrence records
121
taxa
105
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 1,406
100.0%
decimalLatitude 42
3.0%
decimalLongitude 42
3.0%
eventDate 226
16.1%
maximumDepthInMeters 1,406
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 1,406
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 1,406
100.0%
ON_LAND 707
50.3%
NO_COORD 42
3.0%
NOT_MARINE 6
0.4%

Measurement types

DNA derived data