Iziko South African Museum houses the most important crustacean (crabs, lobsters, shrimps, barnacles) collection in South Africa. Significant past contributions were made by K.H. Barnard, J.R. Grindley and B.F. Kensley (Crustacea). It currently contains 13127 records of 348 families.

Citation: iziko South African Museum - Crustacean Collection

Published: December 02, 2020 at 14:08

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

iziko South African Museum
iziko South African Museum

Hamish Robertson
iziko South African Museum

Ursula von St Ange
CSIR / SADCO / AfrOBIS

13,123

occurrence records

2,213

taxa

2,063

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	13,123		100.0%
eventDate	2,716		20.7%
maximumDepthInMeters	4,948		37.7%
minimumDepthInMeters	4,948		37.7%
occurrenceStatus	13,123		100.0%
scientificNameID	915	49	7.3%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	4,948	37.7%
ON_LAND	2,521	19.2%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX	965	7.4%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	937	7.1%
NO_MATCH	718	5.5%
NOT_MARINE	529	4.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE	37	0.3%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	34	0.3%
MARINE_UNSURE	22	0.2%

iziko South African Museum - Crustacean Collection

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data