Dataset

Polychaeta distribution data from: Deep-sea fauna of European seas - an annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe

EurOBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

An annotated check-list is given of Polychaeta species occurring deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe.

Citation: Budaeva, N.E.; Jirkov, I.A.; Savilova, T.A.; Paterson, G.L.J.; (2017). Polychaeta distribution data from: Deep-sea fauna of European seas - an annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe.

Published: September 17, 2025 at 09:29

URL: http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=deepsea_polychaetes

Nataliya Budaeva
Russian Academy of Sciences; P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology

Igor Jirkov
Moscow State University; Department of Hydrobiology

Tatiana Savilova
Russian Academy of Sciences; P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology

Gordon Paterson
Natural History Museum

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

606
occurrence records
164
taxa
163
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 606
100.0%
eventDate 216
35.6%
maximumDepthInMeters 484
79.9%
minimumDepthInMeters 2
0.3%
scientificNameID 16
2.6%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 49
8.1%
NO_MATCH 16
2.6%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 3
0.5%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 1
0.2%
NO_DEPTH 1
0.2%
ON_LAND 1
0.2%

Measurement types

DNA derived data