Dataset

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Vertebrate Collection - Marine records, Tasmania, Australia (1802-2010)

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The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) (Tasmanian Department of State Growth) is the state institution responsible for the development, maintenance and management of the zoological collections of Tasmania. The collections are the largest for Tasmanian fauna in the world, and represent a wide array of Tasmanian animals, ranging from shells of the tiniest micro-molluscs to giant squid and the skeletons of large whales. These specimens represent more than 150 years of museum acquisitions. Data downloaded from ALA website https://collections.ala.org.au/public/show/co111 June 2020.

Citation: Byrne C (2023): Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Vertebrate Collection - Marine records, Tasmania, Australia (1802-2010). 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_co111&v=1.8

Published: June 28, 2023 at 03:54

URL: https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=ala_co111

Catherine Byrne
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

Kathryn Medlock
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

7,148
occurrence records
580
taxa
558
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 1,909
26.7%
decimalLatitude 1,210
16.9%
decimalLongitude 1,210
16.9%
eventDate 787
11.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 7,148
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 7,148
100.0%
scientificNameID 3
0.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 7,148
100.0%
ON_LAND 3,221
45.1%
NO_COORD 1,210
16.9%
NOT_MARINE 455
6.4%
MARINE_UNSURE 320
4.5%
NO_MATCH 3
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data