Name: Distribution of deep-sea sponges in the North Atlantic - Data from the SponGES project
License: To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

This database has been designed to hold data pertaining or related to the distribution of deep-sea sponges from the North Atlantic. All data was collected as part of the SponGES project, an EU funded (Horizon 2020, 2016-2021) project. The data here in largely comprises previously unpublished distribution records and records not digitized or available in other online databases.

Citation

Davies, A.; (2021): Distribution of deep-sea sponges in the North Atlantic - Data from the SponGES project

Published

September 17, 2025 at 09:34

First registration

September 07, 2022 at 12:06

License

To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

URL

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=distribution_of_deep-sea_sponges_in_the_north_atlantic

Archive

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=distribution_of_deep-sea_sponges_in_the_north_atlantic

Contacts

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

4,462

total submitted occurrences

4,462

accepted occurrences

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	4,462	100.0%
eventDate	309	6.9%
maximumDepthInMeters	3,878	86.9%
minimumDepthInMeters	3,878	86.9%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	3,878	86.9%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	195	4.4%
ON_LAND	64	1.4%

Distribution of deep-sea sponges in the North Atlantic - Data from the SponGES project

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data