The estimated number of specimens in the Western Australian Museum Fish Collection is 48,000. This dataset is restricted to marine taxa which have been mapped to the World Register of Marine Species.

Citation: Moore G (2023): Western Australian Museum Fish Collection - 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=wam_ichthyology&v=1.10

Published: June 28, 2023 at 03:23

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

Glenn Moore
Western Australian Museum

Dave Watts
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere

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

51,458

occurrence records

3,915

taxa

3,256

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	2,498	4.9%
decimalLatitude	2,538	4.9%
decimalLongitude	2,538	4.9%
eventDate	8,994	17.5%
maximumDepthInMeters	23,977	46.6%
minimumDepthInMeters	23,977	46.6%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	23,977	46.6%
ON_LAND	18,776	36.5%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	4,407	8.6%
NO_COORD	2,538	4.9%
NOT_MARINE	1,846	3.6%

Western Australian Museum Fish Collection - Marine records

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data