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

Joana Beja
joana.beja@vliz.be

55,595,621
occurrence records
113,467
taxa
99,115
species
1,135
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 41,082,742 5,739,998
84.2%
decimalLatitude 318,131 726
0.6%
decimalLongitude 318,700 10
0.6%
eventDate 1,458,519 6
2.6%
maximumDepthInMeters 21,701,473
39.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 23,779,696
42.8%
occurrenceStatus 346,790 16,188
0.7%
scientificName 873
0.0%
scientificNameID 918,622 484,389
2.5%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 19,944,487
35.9%
ON_LAND 8,321,404
15.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 1,702,301
3.1%
NO_MATCH 1,223,655
2.2%
MARINE_UNSURE 517,058
0.9%
NO_COORD 319,440
0.6%
NOT_MARINE 292,923
0.5%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 274,373
0.5%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 225,039
0.4%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 29,648
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_FOSSIL 21,165
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE_LOSS 15,715
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 13,209
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_NO_BIOTA 12,601
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_GROUPING 11,623
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_HABITAT 9,490
0.0%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 5,768
0.0%
ZERO_COORD 3,024
0.0%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE 726
0.0%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 10
0.0%
DATE_IN_FUTURE 6
0.0%