OBIS Canada

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OBIS Canada is the Canadian regional node of the International Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS).

Maria Cornthwaite
maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

16,906,459
occurrence records
14,085
taxa
11,056
species
303
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
basisOfRecord 545,949
3.2%
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 13,821,899 64,467
82.1%
decimalLatitude 128,397 39,536
1.0%
decimalLongitude 128,426 39,539
1.0%
eventDate 1,012,005 561,896
9.3%
individualCount 1,700
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 9,568,729 2,701
56.6%
minimumDepthInMeters 10,053,421 1,096
59.5%
occurrenceStatus 2,113,761 121,290
13.2%
scientificName 18,510
0.1%
scientificNameID 764,903 318,394
6.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 9,568,644
56.6%
ON_LAND 2,052,568
12.1%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 990,069
5.9%
NO_MATCH 227,242
1.3%
NO_COORD 167,967
1.0%
NOT_MARINE 132,447
0.8%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 101,625
0.6%
MARINE_UNSURE 60,141
0.4%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 39,539
0.2%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE 39,536
0.2%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 15,804
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 6,936
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 5,527
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 4,581
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_NO_BIOTA 2,481
0.0%
SCIENTIFICNAMEID_EXTERNAL 749
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE_LOSS 113
0.0%
ZERO_COORD 74
0.0%
DATE_IN_FUTURE 71
0.0%
DATE_BEFORE_MIN 6
0.0%