Dataset

iziko South African Museum - Shark collection

AfrOBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

This collection has global holdings. It includes numerous representatives of eight of the shark groups, most representatives of the Batoids and Chimaeras, including rare species. Significant material is being acquired from, fisheries research and tooth fish long-lining and fishing company by-catches.

Citation
iziko South African Museum, South Africa Shark Collection. AfrOBIS, South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa.
Published
December 02, 2020 at 14:08
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
http://ipt.iobis.org/afrobis/resource?r=iziko_sharks
Archive
https://ipt.iobis.org/afrobis/archive.do?r=iziko_sharks

Contacts

iziko South African Museum
iziko South African Museum

Hamish Robertson
iziko South African Museum

Ursula von St Ange
CSIR / SADCO / AfrOBIS

14,484
total submitted occurrences
14,427
accepted occurrences
532
taxa
499
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 14,484
100.0%
eventDate 1,950
13.5%
maximumDepthInMeters 12,506
86.3%
minimumDepthInMeters 10,047
69.4%
occurrenceStatus 14,484
100.0%
scientificNameID 63
0.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 9,918
68.5%
ON_LAND 626
4.3%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 564
3.9%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 147
1.0%
NO_MATCH 57
0.4%
MARINE_UNSURE 4
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data