The iziko South African Museum's mollusc collection of southern African species is the second largest mollusc collection in southern Africa. Significant additions were made in the past by K.H. Barnard. It currently contains 6078 records. The families were not provided.

Citation: iziko South African Museum - Mollusc Collection

Published: December 02, 2020 at 14:08

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

iziko South African Museum
iziko South African Museum

Hamish Robertson
iziko South African Museum

Ursula von St Ange
CSIR / SADCO / AfrOBIS

6,016

occurrence records

1,727

taxa

1,465

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	6,016		100.0%
eventDate	2,165		36.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	3,997		66.4%
minimumDepthInMeters	3,997		66.4%
occurrenceStatus	6,016		100.0%
scientificNameID	635	52	11.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	3,997	66.4%
ON_LAND	2,822	46.9%
NO_MATCH	495	8.2%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	483	8.0%
NOT_MARINE	177	2.9%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	31	0.5%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE	19	0.3%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS	12	0.2%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX	10	0.2%
MARINE_UNSURE	5	0.1%

iziko South African Museum - Mollusc Collection

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data