Name: North American Sessile Marine Invertebrate Survey
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

As part of a national and global effort to understand and document patterns of invasion in marine coastal waters, we are collecting invertebrates from embayments across the United States, Panama and Australia.

Citation

Ruiz GM, Fofonoff PW, Steves B, Huber T, Larson K, McCann L, Hitchcock NG, Hines AH, & Carlton JT. 2005. North American Sessile Marine Invertebrate Survey. http://invasions.si.edu/nemesis/

Published

November 13, 2018 at 01:29

License

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

URL

http://ipt.iobis.org/obis-malaysia/resource?r=northamersesi_macrobenthic_v1

Archive

https://ipt.iobis.org/obis-malaysia/archive.do?r=northamersesi_macrobenthic_v1

Contacts

Brian Steves
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Marine Invasions Research Lab

OBIS Secretariat
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

4,808

total submitted occurrences

4,807

accepted occurrences

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	4,808	100.0%
occurrenceStatus	4,808	100.0%
scientificNameID	1	0.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
ON_LAND	1,327	27.6%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	90	1.9%
NO_MATCH	1	0.0%

North American Sessile Marine Invertebrate Survey

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data