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

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Published in:
OBIS-Australia: Australian Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more


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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