Dataset

Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 1994

OBIS USA MeasurementOrFact Open in mapper Explore occurrences

These data are reef fish observations from surveys conducted in the Florida Keys in 1994. These surveys were part of the developmental years of what became the Reef Visual Census, described in the project metadata, Bohnsack et al. 1999 and Smith et al. 2011

Citation
South Florida Reef Visual Census; https://grunt.sefsc.noaa.gov/rvc_analysis20/samples/index
Published
June 03, 2025 at 17:32
License
To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)
URL
https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/resource?r=floridakeysreefvisualcensus1994
Archive
https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/archive.do?r=floridakeysreefvisualcensus1994

Contacts

Jerald Ault
University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science

Jim Bohnsack
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Southeast Fisheries Science Center

Abigail Benson
U.S. Geological Survey

Mathew Biddle
United States Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (US MBON)

Jeremiah Blondeau

55,649
total submitted occurrences
55,649
accepted occurrences
111,601
measurements and facts
159
taxa
156
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 55,649
100.0%

Quality flags

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

No quality flags.

Measurement types

DNA derived data