Data published in 1911 of a survey of the marine benthic fauna and flora of Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound, MA conducted between 1903 and 1907.

Citation

Sumner, F. B., R. C. Osborn, L. J. Cole, and B. M. Davis. A biological survey of the waters of Woods Hole and vicinity. Bulletin of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries. 1911. 31: 1-860

URL

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

Archive

http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/archive.do?r=woodsholebiosurvey

Contacts

OBIS Secretariat
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

Richard Osman
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)

46,294

total submitted occurrences

44,862

accepted occurrences

1,299

taxa

1,262

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	46,294		100.0%
eventDate	4,048		8.7%
maximumDepthInMeters	23,261		50.2%
minimumDepthInMeters	23,261		50.2%
occurrenceStatus	46,294		100.0%
scientificNameID	1,562	126	3.6%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	23,261	50.2%
ON_LAND	9,606	20.7%
NO_MATCH	1,426	3.1%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	421	0.9%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	328	0.7%
MARINE_UNSURE	104	0.2%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE	46	0.1%
NOT_MARINE	6	0.0%

A Biological Survey of the Waters of Woods Hole and Vacinity

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data