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

3,915,950
occurrence records
15,874
taxa
11,877
species
69
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 3,245,821 492
82.9%
eventDate 22
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 1,371,665
35.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 1,382,469
35.3%
scientificNameID 167,613 2,976
4.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 1,371,607
35.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 157,368
4.0%
ON_LAND 142,668
3.6%
NO_MATCH 137,474
3.5%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 107,139
2.7%
MARINE_UNSURE 12,458
0.3%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 11,764
0.3%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 5,149
0.1%
NOT_MARINE 4,846
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%