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

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

54,256
occurrence records
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