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

14,487,388
occurrence records
13,756
taxa
10,903
species
278
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
basisOfRecord 2 546,309
3.8%
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 12,067,605 64,467
83.7%
decimalLatitude 126,337 39,540
1.1%
decimalLongitude 126,366 39,543
1.1%
eventDate 1,010,006 131,547
7.9%
individualCount 1,002
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 9,485,712 3,895
65.5%
minimumDepthInMeters 9,970,404 2,290
68.8%
occurrenceStatus 2,113,719 120,891
15.4%
scientificName 18,512
0.1%
scientificNameID 434,795 317,654
5.2%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 9,486,821
65.5%
ON_LAND 1,945,367
13.4%
NO_MATCH 206,891
1.4%
NO_COORD 165,911
1.1%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 159,865
1.1%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 96,268
0.7%
NOT_MARINE 87,809
0.6%
MARINE_UNSURE 43,582
0.3%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 39,543
0.3%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE 39,540
0.3%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 6,537
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%