The iziko South African Museum has a comprehensive holdings comprising of identified bony and cartilaginous fish, mostly from Cape waters, but extending to Angola and Mozambique and the Southern, Indian and Atlantic Oceans. It currently contains 15048 records of 293 families.

Citation: iziko South African Museum - Fish Collection

Published: December 02, 2020 at 14:08

URL: http://ipt.iobis.org/afrobis/resource?r=iziko_fish

iziko South African Museum
iziko South African Museum

Hamish Robertson
iziko South African Museum

Ursula von St Ange
CSIR / SADCO / AfrOBIS

15,136

occurrence records

2,052

taxa

1,748

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	15,136	100.0%
eventDate	2,153	14.2%
maximumDepthInMeters	5,421	35.8%
minimumDepthInMeters	5,421	35.8%
occurrenceStatus	15,136	100.0%
scientificNameID	346	2.3%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	5,421	35.8%
ON_LAND	2,987	19.7%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX	1,976	13.1%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	1,403	9.3%
NO_MATCH	230	1.5%
NOT_MARINE	210	1.4%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	19	0.1%
MARINE_UNSURE	2	0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS	2	0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE	1	0.0%

iziko South African Museum - Fish Collection

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data