Dataset

iziko South African Museum - Marine Mammal Collection

AfrOBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The Iziko South African Museum has a comprehensive collection of cetacean and Cape fur seal skeletal material. Skeletal material from other marine mammals is also held. Part of this collection is on exhibition in the museum’s Whale Well. It currently contains 1184 records of 12 families.

Citation: iziko South African Museum - Marine Mammal Collection

Published: December 02, 2020 at 14:08

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

iziko South African Museum
iziko South African Museum

Hamish Robertson
iziko South African Museum

Ursula von St Ange
CSIR / SADCO / AfrOBIS

1,184
occurrence records
67
taxa
57
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 1,184
100.0%
eventDate 212
17.9%
maximumDepthInMeters 1,184
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 1,184
100.0%
occurrenceStatus 1,184
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 1,184
100.0%
ON_LAND 574
48.5%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 6
0.5%

Measurement types

DNA derived data