Name: Taxonomic Information System for the Belgian coastal area
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Taxonomic Information System for the Belgian coastal area. Biogeographical information on (mainly) Belgian species. Focus area of the dataset spans from north of Wimereux (northern France) to the Scheldt estuary (southern Netherlands).

Citation

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ). Taxonomic Information System for the Belgian coastal area. 10 Aug 2004, Oostende, Belgium, Accessed on [dd/mm/yyyy].

Published

September 17, 2025 at 09:04

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

URL

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

Archive

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=tisbe

Contacts

Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

Leen Vandepitte
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

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

22,148

total submitted occurrences

20,886

accepted occurrences

5,884

taxa

5,535

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	5,260		23.7%
eventDate	21,714		98.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	22,073		99.7%
minimumDepthInMeters	22,012		99.4%
scientificNameID		753	3.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	22,011	99.4%
ON_LAND	10,006	45.2%
NO_MATCH	753	3.4%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	533	2.4%
NOT_MARINE	509	2.3%
MARINE_UNSURE	439	2.0%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	9	0.0%

Taxonomic Information System for the Belgian coastal area

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data