Dataset

Western Australian Museum Mollusc Collection, Australia (1905-2016)

OBIS Australia Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The Western Australian Museum's Mollusc Collection represents molluscs collected from Western Australia, other parts of Australia, and from the wider world. The collection consists of approximately ­400,000 lots. This dataset is of marine species sourced from the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) January 2019 (https://collections.ala.org.au/public/show/co271). Taxa have been matched to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and if not then matched to the Australian Faunal Directory (AFD)

Citation
Zoology A (2023): Western Australian Museum Mollusc Collection, Australia (1905-2016). 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_co271&v=1.8
Published
June 28, 2023 at 03:56
First registration
June 30, 2020 at 13:58
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License
URL
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=ala_co271
Archive
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/archive.do?r=ala_co271

Contacts

Aquatic Zoology
Perth Cultural Centre

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

40,939
total submitted occurrences
31,068
accepted occurrences
2,370
taxa
1,625
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
decimalLatitude 9,860
24.1%
decimalLongitude 9,860
24.1%
eventDate 19,340 56
47.4%
maximumDepthInMeters 40,939
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 40,939
100.0%
occurrenceStatus 690
1.7%
scientificNameID 12 14
0.1%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 40,939
100.0%
NO_COORD 9,860
24.1%
ON_LAND 3,089
7.5%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 54
0.1%
NO_MATCH 14
0.0%
MARINE_UNSURE 4
0.0%
NOT_MARINE 2
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data