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

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

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

occurrence records

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	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%

Museums Victoria Marine Invertebrates Collection

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data