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OBIS Australia is the regional OBIS Node for Australia. Its aim is fostering the online provision of marine species data from the Australian region and adjacent seas, or data from Australian providers, into the OBIS international data network. These data can also be forwarded to GBIF and Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) on a case by case basis. The website describes our activities and related resources.

Katherine Tattersall
OBISAU@csiro.au

Andres Roubicek
OBISAU@csiro.au

Sachit Rajbhandari
OBISAU@csiro.au

38,320,292
occurrence records
54,704
taxa
40,590
species
649
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 817,366 5,335
2.1%
decimalLatitude 212,444
0.6%
decimalLongitude 212,750 13
0.6%
eventDate 704,799 21,154
1.9%
maximumDepthInMeters 3,899,689
10.2%
minimumDepthInMeters 3,966,928
10.4%
occurrenceStatus 26,385 1,935
0.1%
scientificName 7,418
0.0%
scientificNameID 4,259,707 25,280
11.2%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 3,891,564
10.2%
NO_MATCH 3,611,886
9.4%
ON_LAND 3,316,537
8.7%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 685,230
1.8%
MARINE_UNSURE 398,892
1.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 379,160
1.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 228,781
0.6%
NO_COORD 212,874
0.6%
NOT_MARINE 202,624
0.5%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_HABITAT 7,195
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE_LOSS 6,172
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_NO_BIOTA 5,125
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 4,871
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 263
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_GROUPING 74
0.0%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 53
0.0%
SCIENTIFICNAMEID_EXTERNAL 52
0.0%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 13
0.0%
ZERO_COORD 1
0.0%