Dataset

South Australian Museum Ichthyology Collection - marine records

OBIS Australia Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The fish collection is comprised of over eleven thousand registered lots. The collection has a strong regional focus with freshwater fishes of southern and central Australia and Southern Ocean marine fishes, including deep-sea species, well represented. Data downloaded from ALA (http://collections.ala.org.au/public/show/co57) and non-marine records have been excluded. Taxa have been matched to the World Register of Marine Species.

Citation: Foster R (2023): South Australian Museum Ichthyology Collection - marine records. v1.11. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Dataset/Occurrence. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=sam_ichthyology&v=1.11

Published: June 28, 2023 at 03:21

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

15,432
occurrence records
1,304
taxa
1,065
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 2,236
14.5%
decimalLatitude 2,236
14.5%
decimalLongitude 2,236
14.5%
eventDate 8,482
55.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 12,687
82.2%
minimumDepthInMeters 12,687
82.2%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 12,687
82.2%
ON_LAND 5,833
37.8%
NO_COORD 2,236
14.5%
NOT_MARINE 1,302
8.4%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 142
0.9%

Measurement types

DNA derived data