Dataset

Marine Life Information Network (MarLIN) marine survey data (Professional)

EurOBIS OBIS UK Open in mapper Explore occurrences

A collection of marine life surveys collated by the Marine Life Information Network (MarLIN) as part of their data access program. Surveys are either flagged as professional surveys or data collected by volunteer recorders as part for the Sealife Survey. Information about survey methodology can be found on the MarLIN Web site (www.marlin.ac.uk). There are currently 368 surveys collated by MarLIN containing 250,000 species records. Data ownership remains with the data provider and permission must be sought for commercial use of the data.

Citation: Parr, J. Marine Life Information Network (MarLIN) marine survey data (Professional). Marlin, Collated Marine Life Survey Datasets, Marine Biological Association of the UK, Plymouth, UK

Published: September 17, 2025 at 10:12

URL: http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=nbn_ga000178

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

129,635
occurrence records
2,138
taxa
1,502
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters 129,635
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 129,635
100.0%
scientificNameID 24 525
0.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 129,635
100.0%
ON_LAND 36,684
28.3%
NO_MATCH 527
0.4%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 285
0.2%
MARINE_UNSURE 45
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 22
0.0%
NOT_MARINE 3
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data