Name: Benthos of the White Sea - A database
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Database of benthic organisms of the White Sea collected since 1981.

Citation

Naumov, A. Benthos of the White Sea. A database. White Sea Biological Station, Zoological Institute RAS.

Published

September 17, 2025 at 09:04

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

URL

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

Archive

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=white_sea_benthos

Contacts

Russian Academy of Sciences; Zoological Institute; White Sea Biological Station
Russian Academy of Sciences; Zoological Institute; White Sea Biological Station

Andrew Naumov
Russian Academy of Sciences; Zoological Institute; White Sea Biological Station

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

9,213

total submitted occurrences

9,133

accepted occurrences

532

taxa

517

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	9,213		100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	9,213		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	653		7.1%
scientificNameID		80	0.9%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
ON_LAND	1,610	17.5%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	748	8.1%
NO_DEPTH	653	7.1%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	87	0.9%
NO_MATCH	80	0.9%

Benthos of the White Sea - A database

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data