Dataset

MICROBIS Database (version 1) - European data

OBIS Secretariat Open in mapper Explore occurrences

This dataset contains the European data of MICROBIS, a database of marine microbial biota.

Citation: Neal, P. R., Patterson, D.J. MICROBIS. 1 Jan. 2005, Version 1 (European data).

URL: http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/resource?r=microbis

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Marine Biological Laboratory The Josephine Bay Paul Center in Camparative Molecular Biology and Evolution (WHOI)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Marine Biological Laboratory The Josephine Bay Paul Center in Camparative Molecular Biology and Evolution (WHOI)

889,586
occurrence records
2,163
taxa
650
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 889,586
100.0%
eventDate 2,583
0.3%
maximumDepthInMeters 889,586
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 889,586
100.0%
occurrenceStatus 889,586
100.0%
scientificNameID 26,643 365
3.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 889,586
100.0%
MARINE_UNSURE 117,506
13.2%
ON_LAND 96,157
10.8%
NO_MATCH 25,577
2.9%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 15,187
1.7%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 6,726
0.8%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_HABITAT 1,470
0.2%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 676
0.1%
NOT_MARINE 388
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 270
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data