This dataset contains only georeferenced marine invertebrate records out of SpeciesLink, a distributed information system that integrates primary data from biological collections.

Citation: Fabio Lang da Silveira and Rubens M. Lopes Brazilian Marine Invertebrate Data Sets from SpeciesLink. WSAOBIS, São Paulo, February 2009, Version 1.

Published: November 12, 2018 at 15:46

URL: http://ipt.iobis.org/obis-malaysia/resource?r=brazil_macrobenthic_v1

OBIS Secretariat
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

Alexandre Marino
Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental (CRIA)

2,249

occurrence records

255

taxa

249

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	2,249	100.0%
eventDate	23	1.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	832	37.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	832	37.0%
occurrenceStatus	2,249	100.0%
scientificNameID	30	1.3%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	832	37.0%
ON_LAND	477	21.2%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	93	4.1%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	88	3.9%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE	13	0.6%
NOT_MARINE	6	0.3%
NO_MATCH	2	0.1%

Brazilian Marine Invertebrate Data Sets from SpeciesLink

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data