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WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - 6.2 - Patterns of Sponge Biodiversity in the Pilbara, Northwestern Australia

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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The objective is to synthesize published information on sponge distributions and biodiversities in North-West Australia, with an additional focus on extracting data from Western Australian Museum (WAM) specimen databases and collections, and analysing and collating these datasets to provide an overall synthesis of the sponge faunal biodiversity and distributions of the NW.

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Title WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - 6.2 - Patterns of Sponge Biodiversity in the Pilbara, Northwestern Australia
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/68b9207c-a0eb-4416-8789-475519864a39
Remote Last Updated 26/05/2022
Contact Point
Western Australian Marine Science Institution
jane.fromont@museum.wa.gov.au
Reference Period 03/05/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Western Australia Government

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Western Australia Government "WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - 6.2 - Patterns of Sponge Biodiversity in the Pilbara, Northwestern Australia". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/wamsi-2-dredging-node-6-2-patterns-of-sponge-biodiversity-in-the-pilbara-northwestern-austr_266