Dataset

Marine Turtles

EurOBIS OBIS UK Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Sightings and strandings of both dead and alive marine turtles in the British Isles and the Republic of Ireland.

Citation
National Biodiversity Network Trust. Marine Turtles. National Biodiversity Network Trust, Newark, UK. https://doi.org/10.15468/fyt9hw
Published
September 17, 2025 at 10:15
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=gbif_865
Archive
https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=gbif_865

Contacts

Marine Environmental Monitoring
Marine Environmental Monitoring

Rod Penrose
Marine Environmental Monitoring

Marine Biological Association of the UK
Marine Biological Association of the UK

2,494
total submitted occurrences
2,494
accepted occurrences
6
taxa
5
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
eventDate 797
32.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 2,494
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 2,494
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 2,494
100.0%
ON_LAND 312
12.5%

Measurement types

DNA derived data