Dataset

Universidad Simon Bolivar Museum of Natural Sciences

OBIS Secretariat Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The dataset of the Museo de Ciencias Naturales of the Universidad Simon Bolivar contains 3 groups of sub-datasets from different projects carried out in the Venezuelan Caribbean and Atlantic front since 2000. Most of the registers come from two localities, the Morrocoy National Park in the central-west of Venezuela, and the east upwelling zone. Most represented groups are peracarid crustaceans and gastropods among other invertebrates.

URL: http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/resource?r=usb-mcn

10,654
occurrence records
616
taxa
603
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 10,654
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 8,830
82.9%
minimumDepthInMeters 8,830
82.9%
occurrenceStatus 10,654
100.0%
scientificNameID 142 11
1.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 8,830
82.9%
ON_LAND 2,731
25.6%
NO_MATCH 123
1.2%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 9
0.1%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 2
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data