OBIS Canada

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

Maria Cornthwaite
OBISCanada@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

14,009,046
occurrence records
13,460
taxa
10,787
species
271
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
basisOfRecord 2 546,309
3.9%
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 11,590,652 64,178
83.2%
decimalLatitude 126,371 39,540
1.2%
decimalLongitude 126,400 39,543
1.2%
eventDate 1,010,007 120,049
8.1%
individualCount 722
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 9,515,442 2,273
67.9%
minimumDepthInMeters 10,000,134 668
71.4%
occurrenceStatus 2,113,712 120,885
16.0%
scientificName 18,512
0.1%
scientificNameID 219,709 246,825
3.3%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 9,514,929
67.9%
ON_LAND 1,881,463
13.4%
NO_COORD 165,945
1.2%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 156,498
1.1%
NO_MATCH 116,556
0.8%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 90,723
0.6%
NOT_MARINE 40,155
0.3%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 39,543
0.3%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE 39,540
0.3%
MARINE_UNSURE 27,757
0.2%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 6,606
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 5,196
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 4,581
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_NO_BIOTA 2,481
0.0%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 2,272
0.0%
SCIENTIFICNAMEID_EXTERNAL 748
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE_LOSS 113
0.0%
ZERO_COORD 74
0.0%
DATE_IN_FUTURE 71
0.0%
DATE_BEFORE_MIN 3
0.0%