Dataset

Marine fauna survey of the Vestfold Hills and Rauer Island, 1981-82

OBIS Australia Open in mapper Explore occurrences

This dataset is a description of the shallow coastal marine fauna found in the Vestfold Hills and Rauer Island area, Antarctica. The results are from various surveys in this region over a 12 month period in 1981-82, and a full listing of species (with photographs) is given in the documentation. It includes benthic, pelagic and planktonic organisms of the coast as well as those that inhabit the ice-water interface.

Citation
Australian Antarctic Data Centre (2018). Marine fauna survey of the Vestfold Hills and Rauer Island, 1981-82.
Published
May 12, 2021 at 03:26
First registration
June 24, 2020 at 15:00
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/resource?r=vestfold_marine
Archive
https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/archive.do?r=vestfold_marine

Contacts

Mark J. Tucker
Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Harry R. Burton
Australian Antarctic Division

DATA OFFICER AADC
Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Johnathan Kool

366
total submitted occurrences
337
accepted occurrences
157
taxa
116
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
decimalLatitude 7
1.9%
decimalLongitude 7
1.9%
eventDate 205
56.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 366
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 366
100.0%
scientificNameID 2 23
6.8%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 366
100.0%
ON_LAND 62
16.9%
NO_MATCH 22
6.0%
NO_COORD 7
1.9%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 4
1.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 3
0.8%

Measurement types

DNA derived data