Dataset

Nova Scotia Museum - Marine Birds, Mammals, and Fishes

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This is the Nova Scotia Museum database for marine organisms, including birds, mammals, and fishes. It contains mostly Nova Scotia material but there is also representation from New Brunswick, Newfoundland, the Northwest Territories, and other parts of North America. The ichthyology collection is the most extensive with over 2800 specimens. Temporally, specimens were collected from 1873 to 2002. The dataset was developed from the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History (NSMNH) - Museum Information Management System (MIMS) as an electronic catalogue of specimen and collecting information. This resource contains only the georeferenced records.

Citation: Hebda, Andrew. 2015. Nova Scotia Museum - Marine Birds, Mammals, and Fishes. Version 3 In OBIS Canada Digital Collections. Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada. Published by OBIS, Digital http://www.iobis.org/. Accessed on –INSERT DATE

Published: November 03, 2015 at 20:26

URL: http://ipt.iobis.org/obiscanada/resource?r=nsm

Andrew Hebda
Nova Scotia Museum

Laura Bennet
Nova Scotia Museum

785
occurrence records
118
taxa
105
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 785
100.0%
eventDate 785
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 785
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 785
100.0%
occurrenceStatus 785
100.0%
scientificNameID 2
0.3%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 785
100.0%
SCIENTIFICNAMEID_EXTERNAL 577
73.5%
ON_LAND 176
22.4%
NOT_MARINE 14
1.8%

Measurement types

DNA derived data