Dataset

Museums Victoria Marine Invertebrates Collection

OBIS Australia Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The Marine Invertebrates collection encompasses invertebrates with the exception of insects and spiders. It includes crabs, sea spiders, lobsters, isopods, sponges, corals, worms, molluscs, echinoderms, protozoans and some non-vertebrate chordates. Each species has been linked to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS https://www.marinespecies.org). Data source from ALA (http://collections.ala.org.au/public/show/co119)

Citation
Jo Taylor J (2023): Museums Victoria Marine Invertebrates Collection. v1.12. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Dataset/Occurrence. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=nmv_marine_inverts&v=1.12
Published
June 28, 2023 at 03:27
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=nmv_marine_inverts
Archive
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/archive.do?r=nmv_marine_inverts

Contacts

Jo Jo Taylor
Museums Victoria

Dave Watts
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere

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

244,682
total submitted occurrences
195,782
accepted occurrences
11,742
taxa
8,739
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 28,300
11.6%
decimalLatitude 28,300
11.6%
decimalLongitude 28,300
11.6%
eventDate 60,921
24.9%
maximumDepthInMeters 203,226
83.1%
minimumDepthInMeters 203,226
83.1%
scientificName 1
0.0%
scientificNameID 142 283
0.2%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 203,226
83.1%
ON_LAND 69,558
28.4%
NO_COORD 28,300
11.6%
NOT_MARINE 26,112
10.7%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 3,168
1.3%
MARINE_UNSURE 915
0.4%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 798
0.3%
NO_MATCH 364
0.1%

Measurement types

DNA derived data