Dataset

Museums Victoria Herpetology Collection - marine records

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The Herpetology Collection comprises more than 76,000 specimens of snakes, lizards, frogs, salamanders, tortoises and turtles. Established in the 1850s, the majority of the collection comprises specimens kept in 70% alcohol, plus sub-collections of ethanol-fixed and frozen tissues, a dry and skeletal collection, an X-ray and photographic collection. This dataset is of marine species sourced from the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) January 2019 (https://collections.ala.org.au/public/show/co117). Taxa have been matched to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and if not then matched to the Australian Faunal Directory (AFD)

Citation: Bray D (2023): Museums Victoria 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_co117&v=1.8

Published: June 28, 2023 at 04:31

URL: https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=ala_co117

Di Bray
Museums Victoria

OBIS Australia Node manager
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere

236
occurrence records
22
taxa
18
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 236
100.0%
decimalLatitude 77
32.6%
decimalLongitude 77
32.6%
eventDate 155
65.7%
maximumDepthInMeters 236
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 236
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 236
100.0%
ON_LAND 92
39.0%
NO_COORD 77
32.6%

Measurement types

DNA derived data