EurOBIS

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EurOBIS - the European Node of the international Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) - publishes distribution data on marine species, collected within European marine waters or collected by European researchers outside European marine waters.

Leen Vandepitte
leen.vandepitte@vliz.be

Lennert Tyberghein
lennert.tyberghein@vliz.be

Joana Beja
joana.beja@vliz.be

56,263,262
occurrence records
111,422
taxa
99,052
species
1,140
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 41,750,174 5,739,998
84.4%
decimalLatitude 318,145 727
0.6%
decimalLongitude 318,714 11
0.6%
eventDate 1,458,683 6
2.6%
individualCount 245
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 22,311,100
39.7%
minimumDepthInMeters 24,389,230
43.3%
occurrenceStatus 346,790 16,188
0.6%
scientificName 702
0.0%
scientificNameID 912,028 487,009
2.5%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 20,554,013
36.5%
ON_LAND 8,861,768
15.8%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 1,710,578
3.0%
NO_MATCH 1,219,428
2.2%
MARINE_UNSURE 520,255
0.9%
NO_COORD 319,455
0.6%
NOT_MARINE 292,518
0.5%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 266,785
0.5%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 225,039
0.4%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 29,645
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_FOSSIL 21,165
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE_LOSS 16,030
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 13,265
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_NO_BIOTA 12,601
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_GROUPING 11,623
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_HABITAT 9,649
0.0%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 5,768
0.0%
ZERO_COORD 2,919
0.0%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE 727
0.0%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 11
0.0%
DATE_IN_FUTURE 6
0.0%