Dataset

Porifera distribution data from: Deep-sea fauna of European seas - an annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe

Name: Porifera distribution data from: Deep-sea fauna of European seas - an annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

EurOBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

An annotated check-list is given of Porifera species occurring deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe.

Citation

Tabachnick, K.R.; (2016). Porifera distribution data from: Deep-sea fauna of European seas - an annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe.

Published

September 17, 2025 at 09:13

License

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

URL

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

Archive

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

Contacts

Konstantin Tabachnick
Russian Academy of Sciences; P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

total submitted occurrences

accepted occurrences

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	72	100.0%
eventDate	1	1.4%
maximumDepthInMeters	33	45.8%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH		8	11.1%
ON_LAND		1	1.4%

Porifera distribution data from: Deep-sea fauna of European seas - an annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data