The estimated number of specimens in the Western Australian Museum Bird Collection is 35,000. This dataset is of marine species sourced from the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) January 2019 (https://collections.ala.org.au/public/show/co121). Taxa have been matched to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and if not then matched to the Australian Faunal Directory (AFD)

Citation: Johnstone R (2023): Western Australian Museum Bird Collection - marine records. 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_co121&v=1.8

Published: June 28, 2023 at 03:54

URL: https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=ala_co121

Ron Johnstone
Western Australian Museum

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

4,871

occurrence records

164

taxa

135

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	4,871	100.0%
decimalLatitude	557	11.4%
decimalLongitude	557	11.4%
eventDate	2,375	48.8%
maximumDepthInMeters	4,871	100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	4,871	100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	4,871	100.0%
ON_LAND	2,416	49.6%
NO_COORD	557	11.4%
NOT_MARINE	40	0.8%
MARINE_UNSURE	10	0.2%

Western Australian Museum Bird Collection - marine records

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data