The mollusc collection of the Natal Museum build up from Burnup's collection and further field work, donations, exchange and purchase. It now ranks among the 15 largest in the world with a total 27345 records of 282 families.

Citation: Natal Museum - Mollusc Collection

Published: December 02, 2020 at 14:08

URL: http://ipt.iobis.org/afrobis/resource?r=natal_museum_mollusc

KwaZulu-Natal Museum
KwaZulu-Natal Museum

Dai Herbert
KwaZulu-Natal Museum

Ursula von St Ange
CSIR / SADCO / AfrOBIS

26,516

occurrence records

2,286

taxa

1,611

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	26,516		100.0%
eventDate	3,031		11.4%
maximumDepthInMeters	11,263		42.5%
minimumDepthInMeters	11,263		42.5%
occurrenceStatus	26,516		100.0%
scientificNameID	2,107	119	8.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	11,263	42.5%
ON_LAND	4,003	15.1%
NO_MATCH	1,340	5.1%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	423	1.6%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE	190	0.7%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	72	0.3%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS	12	0.0%
NOT_MARINE	7	0.0%
MARINE_UNSURE	1	0.0%

Natal Museum - Mollusc Collection

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data