Dataset

South Australian Museum Australian Biological Tissue Collection - marine records

OBIS Australia Open in mapper

The Australian Biological Tissue Collection (ABTC) was the first frozen tissue collection in any Australian museum and is one of the largest wildlife tissue collections in the world. This important collection encompasses most vertebrate groups as well as a broad representation of major invertebrate groups from Australia and surrounding regions. It has immense research significance for researchers around the world. The ABTC is the largest tissue bank for wildlife research in the Southern Hemisphere. It contains nearly 125,000 animal and plant samples collected from terrestrial and marine animals since 1979. This dataset is of marine species sourced from the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) January 2019 (https://collections.ala.org.au/public/show/co166). Taxa have been matched to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and if not then matched to the Australian Faunal Directory (AFD)

Citation: South S (2023): South Australian Museum Australian Biological Tissue 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_co166&v=1.8

Published: June 28, 2023 at 04:35

URL: https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=ala_co166

Sally South
South Australian Museum

Stephen Donnellan
South Australian Museum

11,159
occurrence records
586
taxa
535
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 11,159
100.0%
decimalLatitude 5,585
50.0%
decimalLongitude 5,585
50.0%
eventDate 4,223
37.8%
maximumDepthInMeters 11,159
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 11,159
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 11,159
100.0%
NO_COORD 5,585
50.0%
ON_LAND 2,126
19.1%
NOT_MARINE 33
0.3%
MARINE_UNSURE 6
0.1%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 2
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data