Dataset

Australian Museum Marine Invertebrate Collection

OBIS Australia Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The Marine Invertebrate collections contain registered specimens, microscope slides, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) preparations and photographic images. They include various marine invertebrates, and all other invertebrates except molluscs, insects and spiders, including freshwater and terrestrial representatives. The specimens contained in the collections are predominantly from New South Wales, Australia and the Indo-Pacific.

Citation
Keable S (2023): Australian Museum Marine Invertebrate Collection. v1.10. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Dataset/Occurrence. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=am_marine_inverts&v=1.10
Published
June 28, 2023 at 04:41
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=am_marine_inverts
Archive
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/archive.do?r=am_marine_inverts

Contacts

Stephen Keable
Australian Museum

Dave Watts
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere

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

213,260
total submitted occurrences
179,936
accepted occurrences
12,068
taxa
8,785
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 23,442
11.0%
decimalLatitude 23,442
11.0%
decimalLongitude 23,442
11.0%
eventDate 74,914
35.1%
maximumDepthInMeters 213,260
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 213,260
100.0%
scientificName 1
0.0%
scientificNameID 94 374
0.2%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 213,260
100.0%
ON_LAND 75,879
35.6%
NO_COORD 23,442
11.0%
NOT_MARINE 11,232
5.3%
MARINE_UNSURE 2,214
1.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 1,027
0.5%
NO_MATCH 419
0.2%

Measurement types

DNA derived data