Dataset

Whale fall

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Deep-sea whale falls create sulfidic habitats of which microbial structure is poorly evaluated. We sampled the sediment in the whale fall area and targeted the V9 of the 18S SSU to determine the protistan community.

Published: September 20, 2022 at 12:42

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

URL: https://hosted-datasets.gbif.org/mgnify/MGYS00003072.zip

Contacts:

University of Duisburg - Essen
University of Duisburg - Essen

3,886
occurrence records
614
taxa
69
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 3,886
100.0%
occurrenceStatus 3,886
100.0%
scientificNameID 3,886
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_MATCH 925
23.8%
MARINE_UNSURE 226
5.8%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 33
0.8%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 18
0.5%
NOT_MARINE 14
0.4%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 6
0.2%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 3
0.1%

Measurement types

DNA derived data