Name: Western Australian Museum Worms Collection - marine records
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

The Western Australian Museum’s Worm Collection comprises specimens from a wide range of unrelated animals commonly referred to as worms owing to their generally long and skinny bodies. There are approximately 42,000 specimens in the collection. This set is marine records by matching taxa to WoRMS.

Citation

Hosie A (2022): Western Australian Museum Worms Collection - marine records. v1.6. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Dataset/Occurrence. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=ala_co289&v=1.6

Published

June 07, 2022 at 03:09

First registration

July 02, 2020 at 14:30

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

URL

https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=ala_co289

Archive

https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/archive.do?r=ala_co289

Contacts

Andrew Hosie
Western Australian Museum

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

810

total submitted occurrences

764

accepted occurrences

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
decimalLatitude	46	5.7%
decimalLongitude	46	5.7%
eventDate	13	1.6%
maximumDepthInMeters	810	100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	810	100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	810	100.0%
ON_LAND	469	57.9%
NO_COORD	46	5.7%
NOT_MARINE	1	0.1%

Western Australian Museum Worms Collection - marine records

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data