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Western Australia Museum, Crustacea Specimens, Ningaloo Reef - Northwest Cape, Northwest Australia, 1920-2004
Citation
WA Museum - Ningaloo Crustacea database. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/3966
Contact: Marine and Atmospheric Research (CSIRO-CMAR), more
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
This dataset comprises records of marine crustacea specimens in the Western Australia Museum's Ningaloo Crustacea database. There are 918 records of 332 discrete taxa in this dataset. The specimens were collected between 1920 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
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Dataset information:
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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