Observations taken from literature cited by W.Block. Data includes 800 species, 220 references and 3000 observations. There are some marine species that are listed in SCAR-MarBIN Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS).

Citation: Australian Antarctic Data Centre (2018). Invertebrates compiled by W.Block.

Published: May 12, 2021 at 04:24

URL: https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/resource?r=wblock_invertebrate

William Block
British Antarctic Survey

DATA OFFICER AADC
Australian Antarctic Division

Johnathan Kool

2,863

occurrence records

236

taxa

169

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
decimalLatitude	84		2.9%
decimalLongitude	84		2.9%
eventDate	659		23.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	2,863		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	2,863		100.0%
scientificNameID	9	1,583	55.6%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	2,863	100.0%
ON_LAND	1,914	66.9%
NOT_MARINE	1,084	37.9%
NO_MATCH	655	22.9%
MARINE_UNSURE	286	10.0%
NO_COORD	84	2.9%
SCIENTIFICNAMEID_EXTERNAL	52	1.8%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_HABITAT	35	1.2%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE	27	0.9%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	7	0.2%

Invertebrates compiled by W.Block

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data