Dataset

Western Australian Museum Mammal Collection - marine records

OBIS Australia Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The estimated number of specimens in the Western Australian Museum Mammal Collection is 53,600. This dataset is of marine species sourced from the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) January 2019 (https://collections.ala.org.au/public/show/co123). Taxa have been matched to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and if not then matched to the Australian Faunal Directory (AFD)

Citation
Travouillon K (2023): Western Australian Museum Mammal Collection - marine records. v1.7. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Dataset/Occurrence. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=ala_co123&v=1.7
Published
June 28, 2023 at 03:52
License
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URL
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=ala_co123
Archive
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/archive.do?r=ala_co123

Contacts

Kenney Travouillon
Western Australian Museum

OBIS Australia Node manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre

718
total submitted occurrences
602
accepted occurrences
51
taxa
42
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 718
100.0%
decimalLatitude 116
16.2%
decimalLongitude 116
16.2%
eventDate 329
45.8%
maximumDepthInMeters 718
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 718
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 718
100.0%
ON_LAND 343
47.8%
NO_COORD 116
16.2%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 7
1.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data