Name: Littoral Monitoring Network of Cantabria (Invertebrates)
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IHCantabria with the support of the Regional Government of Cantabria has been carried out since 2005 the monitoring of the coastal waters of Cantabria in accordance with the Water Framework Directive. Here is included the abundance and biomass of soft bottoms invertebrates obtained from field campaigns in the coast and the mouth of the two biggest estuaries.

Citation

Puente, A (2026): Littoral Monitoring Network of Cantabria (Invertebrates). IHCantabria - Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental de la Universidad de Cantabria.

Published

May 20, 2026 at 11:18

First registration

May 19, 2022 at 17:20

License

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

URL

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

Archive

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=ihcantabria_invert

Contacts

Elvira Ramos
IHCantabria - Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental de la Universidad de Cantabria

Araceli Puente
IHCantabria - Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental de la Universidad de Cantabria

3,849

total submitted occurrences

3,848

accepted occurrences

7,598

measurements and facts

416

taxa

233

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	3,849		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
ON_LAND	917	23.8%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	35	0.9%
MARINE_UNSURE	1	0.0%
NOT_MARINE	1	0.0%

Littoral Monitoring Network of Cantabria (Invertebrates)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data