Dataset

University of Costa Rica (UCR) Fish Database

OBIS Secretariat Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Marine and freshwater fishes from Central America, principally Costa Rica.

Citation
Myrna López and William Bussing (1964): Museum of Zoology, Biology Department, University of Costa Rica
License
Unrestricted
URL
http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/resource?r=costarica_fish
Archive
http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/archive.do?r=costarica_fish

Contacts

University of Costa Rica; Department of Biology Museum of Zoology
University of Costa Rica; Department of Biology Museum of Zoology

William Bussing
University of Costa Rica; Department of Biology; Museum of Zoology

OBIS Secretariat
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

12,370
total submitted occurrences
12,310
accepted occurrences
1,388
taxa
1,202
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 12,370
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 1,801
14.6%
minimumDepthInMeters 1,800
14.6%
occurrenceStatus 12,370
100.0%
scientificNameID 19
0.2%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
ON_LAND 3,594
29.1%
NO_DEPTH 1,800
14.6%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 1,353
10.9%
NOT_MARINE 48
0.4%
NO_MATCH 12
0.1%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 4
0.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 2
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data