Visual database of whale shark (Rhincodon typus) encounters and individually catalogued whale sharks.

Citation: Norman B and Holmberg J (2008) ECOCEAN Whale Shark Photo-identification Library. Consulted on http://www.iobis.org on January 6, 2009. www.whaleshark.org

Published: June 08, 2022 at 06:08

URL: https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=ecocean_whalesharks

Jason Holmberg
ECOCEAN USA

OBIS Australia Node manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre

8,417

occurrence records

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	8,417	100.0%
eventDate	9	0.1%
maximumDepthInMeters	8,417	100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	8,417	100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		8,417	100.0%
ON_LAND		322	3.8%

ECOCEAN Whale Shark Photo-identification Library

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data