Name: ICES Zoobenthos Community dataset
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Biological zoobenthos community data

Citation: ICES Environmental Database (DOME), Zoobenthos community. Available online at http://dome.ices.dk. ICES, Copenhagen. Consulted on yyyy-mm-dd.

Published: September 17, 2025 at 10:21

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

URL: http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=dome-zoobenthos

Contacts:

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

Neil Holdsworth
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

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

895,205

occurrence records

2,845,426

measurements and facts

2,055

taxa

1,314

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	895,205		100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	730,676		81.6%
minimumDepthInMeters	730,676		81.6%
scientificNameID		1,204	0.1%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	730,676	81.6%
ON_LAND	8,008	0.9%
NOT_MARINE	3,272	0.4%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	2,328	0.3%
NO_MATCH	1,204	0.1%
MARINE_UNSURE	811	0.1%

ICES Zoobenthos Community dataset

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data