Dataset

Queensland Museum Fishes - Marine records

OBIS Australia Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The estimated 5,000 species that occur in Australian waters are amongst the most diverse marine fauna of any country, and many of these species occur in Queensland waters. Holds shallow to deepwater demersal trawled species Queensland-wide; and southern Queensland reef and shore fish fauna. Dtaa downloaded from ALA (http://collections.ala.org.au/public/show/co51) and taxa matched to World Register of Marine Species

Citation
Johnson J (2023): Queensland Museum Fishes - Marine records. v1.10. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Dataset/Occurrence. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=qm_fish&v=1.10
Published
June 28, 2023 at 03:19
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=qm_fish
Archive
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/archive.do?r=qm_fish

Contacts

Jeff Johnson
Queensland Museum

Dave Watts
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere

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

38,071
total submitted occurrences
32,566
accepted occurrences
2,899
taxa
2,461
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 2,855
7.5%
decimalLatitude 2,855
7.5%
decimalLongitude 2,855
7.5%
eventDate 13,392
35.2%
maximumDepthInMeters 38,071
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 38,071
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 38,071
100.0%
ON_LAND 11,928
31.3%
NO_COORD 2,855
7.5%
NOT_MARINE 2,744
7.2%
MARINE_UNSURE 2
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data