A literature based dataset comprises of distribution records of marine organisms reported from the Indian Ocean region gathered as part of the MLR Programme- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Citation: Indian Ocean Biodiversity Information System (IndOBIS)- Distribution records of marine organisms from the Indian Ocean.

Published: February 12, 2021 at 04:45

URL: http://ipt.iobis.org/indobis/resource?r=indobisdataset-72001-74000

Chippy Khader
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology

Johnny Konjarla
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology

Saravanane Narayanane
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology

CMLRE
CMLRE

2,000

occurrence records

742

taxa

676

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	2,000	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	70	3.5%
minimumDepthInMeters	70	3.5%
scientificNameID	7	0.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	1,630	81.5%
ON_LAND	537	26.9%
NO_DEPTH	70	3.5%
NO_MATCH	4	0.2%
MARINE_UNSURE	3	0.1%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	1	0.1%

IndOBIS Dataset (72001-74000)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data