This dataset comprises records of marine mollusca specimens in the Western Australia Museum's Ningaloo Mollusca database. There are 766 records of 122 discrete taxa in this dataset. The specimens were collected between 1920 and 2004 in the region adjacent to Ningaloo Reef, a 260 km coral reef off the coast of North West Cape in NW Western Australia, in water depths ranging from 0 to 850 meters.

Citation: WA Museum - Ningaloo Mollusca database

Published: June 07, 2022 at 03:05

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

Jane Fromont
Western Australian Museum

CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure

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

697

occurrence records

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
eventDate	352	50.5%
maximumDepthInMeters	422	60.5%
minimumDepthInMeters	422	60.5%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		422	60.5%
ON_LAND		122	17.5%

Western Australian Museum, Marine Mollusca Specimens, Ningaloo Reef - Northwest Cape, Northwest Australia, 1953-2002

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data