Dataset

South Australian Museum Ornithology Collection - marine records

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The collection houses over 55,000 registered and 6,000 unregistered specimens including skins, eggs, skeletons, nests and spirit collections. Data downloaded from ALA (http://collections.ala.org.au/public/show/co127) and non-marine records have been excluded. Taxa have been matched to the World Register of Marine Species.

Citation: Horton P (2023): South Australian Museum Ornithology 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_marine_ornithology&v=1.11

Published: June 28, 2023 at 03:21

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

7,650
occurrence records
138
taxa
116
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 1,539
20.1%
decimalLatitude 1,539
20.1%
decimalLongitude 1,539
20.1%
eventDate 1,872
24.5%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
ON_LAND 4,409
57.6%
NO_COORD 1,539
20.1%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 743
9.7%
NOT_MARINE 47
0.6%
MARINE_UNSURE 20
0.3%

Measurement types

DNA derived data