Dataset

Western Australian Museum Herpetology Collection - marine records

OBIS Australia Open in mapper Explore occurrences

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
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License
URL
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=ala_co122
Archive
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/archive.do?r=ala_co122

Contacts

Paul Doughty
Western Australian Museum

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

903
total submitted occurrences
861
accepted occurrences
37
taxa
32
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
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 Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 903
100.0%
ON_LAND 243
26.9%
NO_COORD 42
4.7%

Measurement types

DNA derived data