Dataset

ECOCEAN Whale Shark Photo-identification Library

OBIS Australia Open in mapper Explore occurrences

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
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License
URL
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=ecocean_whalesharks
Archive
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/archive.do?r=ecocean_whalesharks

Contacts

Jason Holmberg
ECOCEAN USA

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

8,417
total submitted occurrences
8,417
accepted occurrences
1
taxa
1
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
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%

Measurement types

DNA derived data