Name: Happywhale - Melon-headed Whale in South Pacific Ocean
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Original provider: Happywhale Dataset credits: Happywhale and contributors Abstract: Happywhale.com is a resource to help you know whales as individuals, and to benefit conservation science with rich data about individual whales.

Citation

Happywhale. 2025. Happywhale - Melon-headed whale in South Pacific Ocean. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP and originated from Happywhale.com. https://doi.org/10.82144/c376cb5b.

Published

October 08, 2025 at 03:51

First registration

October 12, 2020 at 23:30

License

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

URL

http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1709

Archive

https://ipt.env.duke.edu/archive.do?r=zd_1709

Contacts

Ted Cheeseman
Happywhale

OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

total submitted occurrences

accepted occurrences

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters	1		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	1		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		1	100.0%

Happywhale - Melon-headed Whale in South Pacific Ocean

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data