Dataset

Taxonomically comprehensive assessment of biodiversity of animal plankton throughout the world ocean

OBIS Secretariat Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Information on zooplankton species throughout the world ocean.

URL: http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/resource?r=cmarz

OBIS Secretariat
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

Robert C. Groman
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)

130,399
occurrence records
512
taxa
352
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 130,399
100.0%
eventDate 126,469
97.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 128,836
98.8%
minimumDepthInMeters 128,836
98.8%
occurrenceStatus 130,399
100.0%
scientificNameID 4,235
3.2%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 128,836
98.8%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 5,143
3.9%
NO_MATCH 2,687
2.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 1,546
1.2%
ON_LAND 389
0.3%

Measurement types

DNA derived data