Dataset
OBIS Australia Open in mapper Explore occurrences
This dataset comprises records of marine cnidaria and echinoderm specimens in the Western Australia Museum's Ningaloo Marine Invertebrate Zoology database. There are 1942 records of 663 discrete taxa in this dataset, representing 282 Cnidarian and 381 Echinoderm taxa. The specimens were collected between 1952 and 2004 in the region adjacent to Ningaloo Reef, a 260 km coral reef off the coast of North West Cape in NW Western Australia, in water depths ranging from 0 to 850 meters.
Citation: WA Museum - Ningaloo Marine Invertebrate Zoology database
Published: June 07, 2022 at 05:55
URL: https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=wam_ningaloo_miz
Jane Fromont
Western Australian Museum
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Information and Data Centre
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Information and Data Centre
OBIS Australia Node manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre
| Field | Missing | Invalid | |
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| eventDate | 2 |
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| maximumDepthInMeters | 586 |
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| minimumDepthInMeters | 586 |
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The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.
| Flag | Dropped | Records | |
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| NO_DEPTH | 586 |
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| ON_LAND | 72 |
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| DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH | 7 |
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