The estimated number of specimens in the Western Australian Museum Herpetology Collection is 150,000. This dataset is of marine species sourced from the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) January 2019 (https://collections.ala.org.au/public/show/co122). Taxa have been matched to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and if not then matched to the Australian Faunal Directory (AFD)

Citation: Doughty P (2023): Western Australian Museum Herpetology Collection - marine records. v1.8. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Dataset/Occurrence. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=ala_co122&v=1.8

Published: June 28, 2023 at 04:32

URL: https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=ala_co122

Paul Doughty
Western Australian Museum

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

903

occurrence records

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	903	100.0%
decimalLatitude	42	4.7%
decimalLongitude	42	4.7%
eventDate	591	65.4%
maximumDepthInMeters	903	100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	903	100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	903	100.0%
ON_LAND	243	26.9%
NO_COORD	42	4.7%

Western Australian Museum Herpetology Collection - marine records

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data