Name: Cold water corals
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Dataset of cold water corals from seamounts.

Citation

Rogers, A. and J. Hall-Spencer. Cold-water Corals. UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2005, Version 2.0.

Published

September 17, 2025 at 08:30

License

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

URL

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

Archive

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

Contacts

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

Marine Biological Association of the UK
Marine Biological Association of the UK

6,553

total submitted occurrences

6,522

accepted occurrences

575

taxa

488

species

Taxa

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	3,226		49.2%
eventDate	4,017	9	61.4%
maximumDepthInMeters	2,693		41.1%
minimumDepthInMeters	2,696		41.1%
scientificNameID	43		0.7%

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	2,666	40.7%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	672	10.3%
ON_LAND	52	0.8%
NO_MATCH	31	0.5%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS	15	0.2%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	9	0.1%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX	3	0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE	3	0.0%

Cold water corals