Opportunistic sightings and strandings of Caperea marginata (n=196) from the vicinity of Australia and New Zealand (1884 to early 2007) were used to relate geographic and temporal patterns to oceanographic and broad-scale climatic variability. Records were not uniformly distributed along the coast and more (69%) were from Australia than New Zealand. Data from Appendix 1 and 2 of the cited paper.

Citation: CM Kemper, JF Middleton & PD van Ruth (2013) Association between pygmy right whales (Caperea marginata) and areas of high marine productivity off Australia and New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 40:2, 102-128, DOI: 10.1080/03014223.2012.707662

Published: June 13, 2022 at 23:56

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

Catherine Kemper
South Australian Museum

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

198

occurrence records

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	198	100.0%
decimalLatitude	5	2.5%
decimalLongitude	7	3.5%
eventDate	38	19.2%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
ON_LAND	89	44.9%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	25	12.6%
NO_COORD	7	3.5%

Association between pygmy right whales (Caperea marginata) and areas of high marine productivity off Australia and New Zealand (1874-2006)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data