OBIS Japan

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OBIS Japan node collects marine species information around Japan. OBIS Japan node is hosted by Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC). Further data and information on marine species around Japan can be found in BISMaL (http://www.godac.jamstec.go.jp/bismal/e/)

Takashi Hosono
hosonot@jamstec.go.jp

Katsunori Fujikura
fujikura@jamstec.go.jp

3,904,522
occurrence records
15,676
taxa
11,747
species
65
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 3,237,822 492
82.9%
eventDate 22
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 1,362,894
34.9%
minimumDepthInMeters 1,373,698
35.2%
scientificNameID 167,502 2,787
4.4%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 1,362,836
34.9%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 157,327
4.0%
NO_MATCH 137,186
3.5%
ON_LAND 134,831
3.5%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 107,139
2.7%
MARINE_UNSURE 12,421
0.3%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 11,441
0.3%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 5,149
0.1%
NOT_MARINE 4,844
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 2,523
0.1%
SCIENTIFICNAMEID_EXTERNAL 1,158
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_GROUPING 334
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_FOSSIL 100
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_HABITAT 52
0.0%
ZERO_COORD 3
0.0%