Dataset

Australian Museum Herpetology Collection - marine records

OBIS Australia Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The estimated number of specimens in the Australian Museum Herpetology Collection is 162,000. This dataset is of marine species sourced from the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) January 2019 (https://collections.ala.org.au/public/show/co10). Taxa have been matched to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and if not then matched to the Australian Faunal Directory (AFD).

Citation: Rowley J (2023): Australian Museum Herpetology Collection - marine records. v1.9. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Dataset/Occurrence. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=ala_co10&v=1.9

Published: June 28, 2023 at 03:51

URL: https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=ala_co10

4,763
occurrence records
43
taxa
34
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 4,763
100.0%
decimalLatitude 266
5.6%
decimalLongitude 266
5.6%
eventDate 1,639
34.4%
maximumDepthInMeters 4,763
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 4,763
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 4,763
100.0%
ON_LAND 1,884
39.6%
NO_COORD 266
5.6%

Measurement types

DNA derived data