A literature based dataset comprises of distribution records of marine organisms reported from the Indian Ocean region gathered as part of the MLR Programme- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Citation: Indian Ocean Biodiversity Information System (IndOBIS)- Distribution records of marine organisms from the Indian Ocean.

Published: January 17, 2022 at 11:13

URL: http://ipt.iobis.org/indobis/resource?r=indobisdataset-60001-62000

Chippy Khader
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology

Johnny Konjarla
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology

Saravanane Narayanane
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology

2,000

occurrence records

364

taxa

352

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	2,000	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	567	28.3%
minimumDepthInMeters	1,993	99.7%
scientificNameID	48	2.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	567	28.3%
ON_LAND	301	15.0%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	168	8.4%
NO_MATCH	42	2.1%
MARINE_UNSURE	6	0.3%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	6	0.3%
NOT_MARINE	5	0.2%

IndOBIS Dataset (60001-62000)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data