An Estuarine Inventory for New South Wales, Australia

doi:10.15468/8wuqvw

An Estuarine Inventory for New South Wales, Australia

Citation

(2023): An Estuarine Inventory for New South Wales, Australia. v1.5. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Dataset/Occurrence. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=seamapaus_nsw_estuarine_inventory&v=1.5 https://doi.org/10.15468/8wuqvw accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-06-24.

Description

Fisheries oriented inventory that consists of tabular information and an atlas of estuarine wetlands describing 133 estuaries and embayments along the NSW (Australia) coast. Vegetation-types identified on these maps were saltmarshes (all species combined), mangroves (all species combined), and seagrasses. In the case of seagrasses, the following species or families were mapped: Zosteraceae (including Zostera capricorni, Zostera muelleri, and Heterozostera tasmanica), Posidonia australis, Halophila spp. (Halophila ova/is and Halophila decipiens) and Ruppia spp. (Ruppia megacarpa, Ruppia polycarpa and Ruppia maritima).

This dataset is hosted by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, on behalf of the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, New South Wales Government for the purposes of Seamap Australia (testing a national marine benthic habitat classification scheme). Data and metadta sourced from https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/metadata.show?uuid=021f65eb-38c6-4db2-9dbe-821b6b427780

Additional info

marine, harvested by OBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

New South Wales coast

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Division of Fisheries
originator
position: Custodian
Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH), New South Wales Government
Sydney
New South Wales
AU

IMAS Data Manager
metadata author
position: Data manager
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Hobart
Tasmania
AU

OBIS Australia Node manager
publisher
position: OBIS Australia Data Manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre
Castray Esplande
Hobart
7000
Tasmania
AU
email: obisau@csiro.au
homepage: http://www.obis.org.au

IMAS Data Manager
administrative point of contact
position: Data manager
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Hobart
Tasmania
AU