Benthic amphipods data was extracted from several oceanographic expeditions by INIOAS projects in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman from 2014-2022. The dataset also included records gathered during PhD project of Farzaneh Momtazi at the University of Tehran that sampled from 2009-2013.

Citation: Momtazi F, Maghsoudlou A, Saeedi H (2024). The Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman Amphipoda. Version 1.1. Deep-sea OBIS node. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.iobis.org/obis-deepsea/resource?r=amphipod_persiangulf&v=1.1

Published: July 10, 2024 at 12:50

URL: https://ipt.iobis.org/obis-deepsea/resource?r=amphipod_persiangulf

Farzaneh Momtazi
Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences

Abdolvahab Maghsoudlou
Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences

Hanieh Saeedi
Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum

543

occurrence records

555

measurements and facts

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	78		14.4%
maximumDepthInMeters		2	0.4%
minimumDepthInMeters		2	0.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
ON_LAND	64	11.8%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	8	1.5%
NO_DEPTH	2	0.4%

The Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman Amphipoda

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data