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

Tobias Buring
tobias.buring@vliz.be

Lennert Tyberghein
lennert.tyberghein@vliz.be

Joana Beja
joana.beja@vliz.be

64,925,088
occurrence records
111,470
taxa
100,193
species
1,158
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 50,398,066 5,739,988
86.5%
decimalLatitude 318,213 727
0.5%
decimalLongitude 318,782 12
0.5%
eventDate 1,458,913 58
2.2%
individualCount 246
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 22,621,207 676,444
35.9%
minimumDepthInMeters 24,713,367 676,445
39.1%
occurrenceStatus 1,471,691 16,188
2.3%
scientificName 702
0.0%
scientificNameID 930,339 490,020
2.2%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 21,540,361
33.2%
ON_LAND 9,090,926
14.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 1,724,603
2.7%
NO_MATCH 1,228,330
1.9%
MARINE_UNSURE 525,354
0.8%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 383,688
0.6%
NO_COORD 319,524
0.5%
NOT_MARINE 297,249
0.5%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 225,170
0.3%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 29,735
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_FOSSIL 21,117
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 5,778
0.0%
ZERO_COORD 2,919
0.0%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE 727
0.0%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 12
0.0%
DATE_IN_FUTURE 6
0.0%
DEPTH_OUT_OF_RANGE 1
0.0%