Name: DFO Quebec Region MLI museum collection
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Marine organism collection of the Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Fisheries and Oceans Canada. / Collection des organismes marins de l'Institut Maurice-Lamontage, Pêches et Océans Canada.

Citation: Miller R, Nozères C (2026). DFO Quebec Region MLI museum collection. Version 3.29. Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Occurrence dataset. http://iobis.org/mapper/?resource_id=2673

Published: March 31, 2026 at 14:04

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

URL: http://ipt.iobis.org/obiscanada/resource?r=dfo_que_mli_museum

Contacts:

Roberta Miller
Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Claude Nozères
Fisheries and Oceans Canada

13,081

occurrence records

1,905

taxa

1,546

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	13,081		100.0%
decimalLatitude	1,796		13.7%
decimalLongitude	1,796		13.7%
eventDate	1,528	11,535	99.9%
individualCount		2	0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	4,339		33.2%
minimumDepthInMeters	4,342		33.2%
occurrenceStatus	13,081		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	4,339	33.2%
NO_COORD	1,796	13.7%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	1,651	12.6%
ON_LAND	471	3.6%
NOT_MARINE	54	0.4%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	22	0.2%
MARINE_UNSURE	2	0.0%

DFO Quebec Region MLI museum collection

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data