Dataset

Marine flora and fauna records from the North-east Atlantic

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This dataset contains marine littoral and sublittoral records of flora and fauna from the North-east Atlantic, provided by the Porcupine Marine Natural History Society.

Citation
Marine flora and fauna records from the North-east Atlantic. Porcupine Marine Natural History Society, UK - UK National Biodiversity Network. https://doi.org/10.15468/pcmg9q
Published
September 17, 2025 at 08:41
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=gbif_12028
Archive
https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=gbif_12028

Contacts

Porcupine Marine Natural History Society
Porcupine Marine Natural History Society

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

3,526
total submitted occurrences
3,457
accepted occurrences
1,086
taxa
896
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
eventDate 271
7.7%
maximumDepthInMeters 3,526
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 3,526
100.0%
scientificNameID 76 12
2.5%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 3,526
100.0%
ON_LAND 587
16.6%
NO_MATCH 67
1.9%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 47
1.3%
MARINE_UNSURE 21
0.6%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 16
0.5%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 7
0.2%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_GROUPING 3
0.1%
NOT_MARINE 2
0.1%

Measurement types

DNA derived data