Dataset

Naturalis Invertebrate specimens from marine expeditions

EurOBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

RMNH_INVERTEBRATE_MARINE_EXPEDITIONS_SPECIMENS is an extract of several databases which were the result of NWO Groot "Building de database of Life" in 2005 and 2006 in which the handwritten registers were digitised.

Citation: NLBIF, Naturalis National Natural History Museum (NL). Invertebrate specimens from marine expeditions. https://doi.org/10.15468/0fscv9

Published: September 17, 2025 at 08:29

URL: http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=gbif_7957

Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis; National Museum of Natural History - Naturalis
Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis; National Museum of Natural History - Naturalis

Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Naturalis Biodiversity Center

Bert Hoeksema
Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis; National Museum of Natural History - Naturalis

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

Jacob Leloux
Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis; National Museum of Natural History - Naturalis

939
occurrence records
293
taxa
283
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 939
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 32
3.4%
minimumDepthInMeters 35
3.7%
scientificNameID 5
0.5%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
ON_LAND 245
26.1%
NO_DEPTH 32
3.4%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 10
1.1%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 7
0.7%
NO_MATCH 3
0.3%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 1
0.1%

Measurement types

DNA derived data