Dataset

Queensland Museum Corals

OBIS Australia Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The Museum of Tropical Queensland, Townsville, is home to our internationally recognised collection of hard corals. The collection is a comprehensive coverage of Indo-Pacific Scleractinia, particularly from the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. The collection also includes: - the J.E.N. Veron collection, donated by the Australian Institute of Marine Science; - comparative material from Indonesia, Maldives, Seychelles, Papua New Guinea and many other tropical nations. Data from ALA (http://collections.ala.org.au/public/show/co200). Taxa matched to World Register of Marine Species.

Citation
Muir P (2023): Queensland Museum Corals. v1.12. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Dataset/Occurrence. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=qm_corals&v=1.12
Published
June 28, 2023 at 03:18
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=qm_corals
Archive
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/archive.do?r=qm_corals

Contacts

Paul Muir
Queensland Museum

Dave Watts
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere

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

54,256
total submitted occurrences
49,509
accepted occurrences
1,017
taxa
795
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 4,591
8.5%
decimalLatitude 4,591
8.5%
decimalLongitude 4,591
8.5%
eventDate 24,824
45.8%
maximumDepthInMeters 54,256
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 54,256
100.0%
scientificNameID 168
0.3%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 54,256
100.0%
ON_LAND 6,448
11.9%
NO_COORD 4,591
8.5%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 249
0.5%
NO_MATCH 168
0.3%
MARINE_UNSURE 2
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data