Dataset

Marine Biota Along the West Coast of Ceara State - Northeast Brazil

OBIS Brazil Open in mapper Explore occurrences

This data set includes the results of the sampling activities undertaken over two years (dry season 2002 and wet season 2003) during low spring tide and at five different localities along the west coast of Ceara State, Brazil. Mainly macrofauna samples were obtained, either from rocky as well from sand beaches including the mouth of two rivers.

Citation
Fabio Lang da Silveira and Rubens M. Lopes Marine Biota Along the West Coast of Ceara State, Northeast Brazil. WSAOBIS, São Paulo, June 2008, Version 1, Publication.
Published
January 08, 2026 at 17:20
First registration
July 17, 2026 at 12:01
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License
URL
https://ipt.sibbr.gov.br/obis-brasil/resource?r=marine_biota_west_coast_of_ceara_ne_brazil
Archive
https://ipt.sibbr.gov.br/obis-brasil/archive.do?r=marine_biota_west_coast_of_ceara_ne_brazil

Contacts

OBIS Secretariat
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

Alexandre Marino
Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental (CRIA)

773
total submitted occurrences
763
accepted occurrences
224
taxa
193
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 773
100.0%
eventDate 8
1.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 17
2.2%
minimumDepthInMeters 17
2.2%
occurrenceStatus 773
100.0%
scientificNameID 19
2.5%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
ON_LAND 238
30.8%
NO_DEPTH 17
2.2%
NO_MATCH 10
1.3%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 3
0.4%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 2
0.3%

Measurement types

DNA derived data