Dataset

Western Australian Museum, Marine Invertebrate Specimens, Ningaloo Reef - Northwest Cape, Northwest Australia, 1952-2004

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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

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1,922
occurrence records
572
taxa
464
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
eventDate 2
0.1%
maximumDepthInMeters 586
30.5%
minimumDepthInMeters 586
30.5%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 586
30.5%
ON_LAND 72
3.7%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 7
0.4%

Measurement types

DNA derived data