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Western Australia Museum, Marine Invertebrate Specimens, Ningaloo Reef - Northwest Cape, Northwest Australia, 1952-2004

Citation

WA Museum - Ningaloo Marine Invertebrate Zoology database. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/3967

Contact: Marine and Atmospheric Research (CSIRO-CMAR), more

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Description

This dataset comprises records of marine cnidaria and echinoderm specimens in the Western Australia Museum's Ningaloo Marine Invertebrate Zoology database. There are 1942 records of 663 discrete taxa in this dataset, representing 282 Cnidarian and 381 Echinoderm taxa. The specimens were collected between 1952 and 2004 in the region adjacent to Ningaloo Reef, a 260 km coral reef off the coast of North West Cape in NW Western Australia, in water depths ranging from 0 to 850 meters.

Scope

Themes:

Biology > Invertebrates

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal

Contributors

Western Australia Museum, more, data owner, data provider

Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (Australia); Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR), more

Related datasets

Published in:

OBIS-Australia: Australian Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

URLs

Dataset information:

gcmd.nasa.gov/r/d/[GCMD]OBISAU_WAM_NINGALOO_MIZ

Dataset status: Completed

Data type: Data

Data origin: Museum collection

Metadatarecord created: 2012-12-19

Information last updated: 2015-05-20

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