Dataset

Asia-Pacific Dataset

OBIS Japan Open in mapper Explore occurrences

This dataset contains marine organism occurrence data of the Asia-Pacific region which were extracted from published literature by S9-5 supported by the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (S9) of the Ministry of the Environment, Japan.

Citation: Jintsu-Uchifune, Y., Yamamoto, H. (2016) Marine organism occurrence data of the Asia-Pacific region extracted from literature. Available at https://doi.org/10.48518/00002. Accessed on yyyy-mm-dd.

Published: May 29, 2025 at 00:14

URL: https://www.godac.jamstec.go.jp/ipt/resource?r=s9-5_asia-pacific

Yoshie Uchifune
JAMSTEC

Hiroyuki Yamamoto
JAMSTEC

53,897
occurrence records
5,339
taxa
3,705
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 37,368
69.3%
maximumDepthInMeters 23,406
43.4%
minimumDepthInMeters 24,697
45.8%
scientificNameID 660 784
2.7%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 23,406
43.4%
ON_LAND 1,930
3.6%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 1,885
3.5%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 1,235
2.3%
NO_MATCH 1,064
2.0%
SCIENTIFICNAMEID_EXTERNAL 178
0.3%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 165
0.3%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_FOSSIL 100
0.2%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_HABITAT 52
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 45
0.1%
MARINE_UNSURE 32
0.1%
NOT_MARINE 16
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 3
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data