Dataset

Arctic soft-sediment macrobenthos

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Samples of the macrobenthic fauna of soft sediments were collected from around Svalbard during the 1991 Arctic EPOS cruise of RVPolarstern

Citation: Kendall M., 1996: Arctic soft-sediment macrobenthos. Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK

Published: September 17, 2025 at 10:13

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

Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Plymouth Marine Laboratory

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

Ruben Perez Perez
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

1,005
occurrence records
3,029
measurements and facts
209
taxa
140
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 1,005
100.0%
scientificNameID 23
2.3%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 183
18.2%
NO_MATCH 23
2.3%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 3
0.3%
MARINE_UNSURE 2
0.2%

Measurement types

DNA derived data