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

64,584,929
occurrence records
111,470
taxa
99,421
species
1,147
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 50,062,189 5,740,040
86.4%
decimalLatitude 318,145 9,659
0.5%
decimalLongitude 318,714 8,943
0.5%
eventDate 1,458,757 6
2.3%
individualCount 245
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 22,341,495 676,444
35.6%
minimumDepthInMeters 24,419,606 676,444
38.9%
occurrenceStatus 346,790 16,188
0.6%
scientificName 702
0.0%
scientificNameID 912,028 487,101
2.2%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 21,260,816
32.9%
ON_LAND 8,862,610
13.7%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 1,725,539
2.7%
NO_MATCH 1,219,520
1.9%
MARINE_UNSURE 524,012
0.8%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 383,559
0.6%
NO_COORD 328,387
0.5%
NOT_MARINE 292,518
0.5%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 225,039
0.3%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 29,645
0.0%
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%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE 9,659
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_HABITAT 9,649
0.0%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 8,943
0.0%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 5,768
0.0%
ZERO_COORD 2,919
0.0%
DATE_IN_FUTURE 6
0.0%