Dataset

HMAP Dataset 18: Colombian Caribbean Sea

EurOBIS Oceans Past Initiative Open in mapper Explore occurrences

This dataset contains catch data collected during scientific cruises in the northern Colombian Caribbean Sea. The data covers the time period 1970-2001.

Citation: C.B. García and L.O. Duarte, 'Columbian Caribbean Sea', in J.H. Nicholls (comp.) HMAP Data Pages (https://oceanspast.org/hmap_db.php)

Published: September 17, 2025 at 10:13

URL: http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=hmap_18

Camilo Garcia
Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Marine and Coastal Research Institute "Jose Benito Vives De Andréis"

Oceans Past Initiative
Oceans Past Initiative

Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Marine and Coastal Research Institute "Jose Benito Vives De Andréis"
Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Marine and Coastal Research Institute "Jose Benito Vives De Andréis"

John Nicholls
The University of Dublin, Trinity College

2,231
occurrence records
444
taxa
333
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 2,231
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 2,231
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 2,231
100.0%
scientificNameID 55 9
2.9%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 2,231
100.0%
ON_LAND 126
5.6%
NO_MATCH 64
2.9%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 16
0.7%

Measurement types

DNA derived data