Name: Data from the 1935-1936 cruises of the Belgian training ship Mercator 3 Pisces collection
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Data from the cruises of the Belgian training ship Mercator, 3: Pisces collection. The data were digitized by the Flanders Marine Institute using the citizen science platform DoeDat, and transformed according to the standards of the DwC Event core format.

Citation

Delsman H. C. Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique; (2022). Data from the 1935-1936 cruises of the Belgian training ship Mercator 3 Pisces collection.

Published

September 17, 2025 at 10:09

First registration

September 07, 2022 at 12:05

License

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

URL

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=mercator-expedition-pisces

Archive

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=mercator-expedition-pisces

Contacts

Delsman
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen; Departement Paleontologie; Afdeling Antropologie en prehistorie; Eenheid Archeozoölogie

Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen; Departement Paleontologie; Afdeling Antropologie en prehistorie; Eenheid Archeozoölogie
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen; Departement Paleontologie; Afdeling Antropologie en prehistorie; Eenheid Archeozoölogie

447

total submitted occurrences

397

accepted occurrences

881

measurements and facts

129

taxa

128

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	318	71.1%
decimalLatitude	8	1.8%
decimalLongitude	9	2.0%
eventDate	3	0.7%
maximumDepthInMeters	170	38.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	371	83.0%
scientificNameID	10	2.2%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
ON_LAND	230	51.5%
NO_DEPTH	170	38.0%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	57	12.8%
NOT_MARINE	37	8.3%
NO_MATCH	10	2.2%
NO_COORD	9	2.0%
MARINE_UNSURE	1	0.2%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	1	0.2%

Data from the 1935-1936 cruises of the Belgian training ship Mercator 3 Pisces collection

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data