Dataset

Marine data from the Bernice P. Bishop Museum

SWP OBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, designated the Hawaiʻi State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a museum of history and science located in the Kalihi district of Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of O’ahu. Founded in 1889, it is the largest museum in Hawai’i and is home to one of the world’s largest collections of natural history material from the Pacific region, with approximately 21 million specimens. The main collections include Entomology, Malacology, Botany, Ichthyology, Vertebrate Zoology (Birds, Mammals, Amphibians and Reptiles) and Marine Invertebrates. The filter criteria for this dataset restricts the complete dataset to only organisms taken from marine environments, and only records that have geo-reference coordinates assigned to them. The data consist primarily of vouchered specimens in the Ichthyology, Marine Invertebrate, and Algae collections of BPBM.

Citation: Pyle R (2016). Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Version 8.1. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/s6ctus accessed via GBIF.org on 2018-11-16.

Published: March 20, 2023 at 17:02

URL: https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=bernicepbishopmuseum

David Bloom
VertNet

Robert Whitton
Technical Innovations, Inc.

Arnold Suzumoto
Bishop Museum

40,579
occurrence records
4,881
taxa
3,874
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
decimalLatitude 56
0.1%
decimalLongitude 56
0.1%
eventDate 3,214 11
7.9%
maximumDepthInMeters 16,299
40.2%
minimumDepthInMeters 16,292
40.1%
scientificNameID 6 198
0.5%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 16,292
40.1%
ON_LAND 4,928
12.1%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 1,718
4.2%
NO_MATCH 197
0.5%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 80
0.2%
NO_COORD 56
0.1%
NOT_MARINE 30
0.1%
MARINE_UNSURE 28
0.1%
DATE_IN_FUTURE 11
0.0%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 7
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data