Caribbean OBIS

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The Caribbean Regional Node for OBIS serves the Caribbean region, centralizing and curating the regional datasets. We also provide training courses and technical advise in the wider Caribbean, Central and South America in Spanish. The operative center is located at the Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela which partially supports the node as an academic activity.

Eduardo Klein
eklein@usb.ve

Carlos Carmona
microphrys@gmail.com

Carolina Peralta
anacarolaperaltab@gmail.com

Jeannette Perez
perezjeannette@gmail.com

Joxmer Scott-Frías
joxmer@gmail.com

435,468
occurrence records
15,218
taxa
12,336
species
142
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 403,829 3,928
93.6%
decimalLatitude 1,362 575
0.4%
decimalLongitude 1,362 581
0.4%
eventDate 64,570 4,274
15.8%
maximumDepthInMeters 278,245 1
63.9%
minimumDepthInMeters 288,740 1
66.3%
occurrenceStatus 134,705 13
30.9%
scientificName 2
0.0%
scientificNameID 3,213 7,934
2.6%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 278,220
63.9%
ON_LAND 60,951
14.0%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 7,363
1.7%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 5,387
1.2%
NO_MATCH 3,993
0.9%
NO_COORD 1,943
0.4%
MARINE_UNSURE 642
0.1%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 581
0.1%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE 575
0.1%
NOT_MARINE 356
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 313
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 232
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 144
0.0%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 86
0.0%
DEPTH_OUT_OF_RANGE 1
0.0%