Fish OBIS

Open in mapper Explore occurrences

FishNet2 and FishBase together are the new global thematic Fish OBIS node. FishNet2 will provide specimen-vouchered occurrences and data derived from specimens, and FishBase will provide occurrence data gathered through trawling surveys, ecological monitoring etc.

Nicolas Bailly
nbailly@hcmr.gr

Henry Bart
hbartjr@tulane.edu

Yasin Bakis
ybakis@tulane.edu

2,920,248
occurrence records
21,827
taxa
18,147
species
2
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 2,382,072 107,814
85.3%
decimalLatitude 787,805 261,921
35.9%
decimalLongitude 785,730 260,632
35.8%
eventDate 2,749,116 177
94.1%
individualCount 3,345
0.1%
maximumDepthInMeters 2,920,248
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 2,920,248
100.0%
occurrenceStatus 2,749,116 783
94.2%
scientificName 153,142
5.2%
scientificNameID 153,142 117
5.2%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 2,920,248
100.0%
NO_COORD 1,113,093
38.1%
ON_LAND 706,383
24.2%
NOT_MARINE 312,420
10.7%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE 261,921
9.0%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 260,632
8.9%
NO_MATCH 153,259
5.2%
ZERO_COORD 2,529
0.1%
MARINE_UNSURE 612
0.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 352
0.0%