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Western Australia Museum, Marine Mollusca Specimens, Ningaloo Reef - Northwest Cape, Northwest Australia, 1953-2002
Citation
WA Museum - Ningaloo Mollusca database. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/3969
Contact: Rees, Tony

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Description
This dataset comprises records of marine mollusca specimens in the Western Australia Museum's Ningaloo Mollusca database. There are 766 records of 122 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
Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (Australia); Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR)
Rees, Tony
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OBIS-Australia: Australian Ocean Biodiversity Information System


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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