Dataset

South TX Outer Continental Shelf and MI, AL, and FL Outer Continental Shelf benthic organism sampling 1974-1978

OBIS Secretariat Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Benthic organisms data were collected using sediment sampler, net casts BELLOWS and other platforms in the Gulf of Mexico from 16 May 1974 to 20 February 1978. Data were collected and submitted by Dr. William Sackett of Texas University with support from the Outer Continental Shelf project.

Citation
US National Oceanographic Data Center. 2011. South TX Outer Continental Shelf and MI, AL, and FL Outer Continental Shelf benthic organism sampling 1974-1978. US National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.Retrieved from http://www.usgs.gov/obis-usa/.
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URL
http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/resource?r=stocs_mafla_benthic
Archive
http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/archive.do?r=stocs_mafla_benthic

Contacts

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service National Oceanographic Data Center (NOAA-NODC)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service National Oceanographic Data Center (NOAA-NODC)

William Sackett

OBIS Secretariat
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

145,999
total submitted occurrences
144,732
accepted occurrences
2,473
taxa
1,665
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 145,999
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 145,999
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 145,999
100.0%
occurrenceStatus 145,999
100.0%
scientificNameID 2,096 121
1.5%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 145,999
100.0%
NO_MATCH 1,264
0.9%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 831
0.6%
ON_LAND 461
0.3%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 90
0.1%
MARINE_UNSURE 18
0.0%
NOT_MARINE 3
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data