Dataset

Mediterranean Ocean Biodiversity Information System

EurOBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The Mediterranean Ocean Biodiversity Information System (MedOBIS) is a distributed system that allows you to search multiple datasets simultaneously for biogeographic information on marine organisms.

Citation: Hellenic Centre For Marine Research, MedOBIS - Mediterranean Ocean Biodiversity Information System. Hellenic Centre for Marine Research; Institute of Marine Biology and Genetics; Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management Department, Heraklion, Greece. Http://www.medobis.org/

Published: September 17, 2025 at 08:34

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

Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research

Vasilis Gerovasileiou
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research

Stamatina Nikolopoulou
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research

34,017
occurrence records
2,293
taxa
2,009
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 34,017
100.0%
eventDate 34,017
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 11,596
34.1%
minimumDepthInMeters 11,596
34.1%
scientificNameID 275 68
1.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 11,596
34.1%
ON_LAND 5,714
16.8%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 1,422
4.2%
NO_MATCH 336
1.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 208
0.6%
NOT_MARINE 14
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data