A literature based dataset comprises of distribution records of marine organisms reported from the Indian Ocean region gathered as part of the MLR Programme- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Citation: Indian Ocean Biodiversity Information System (IndOBIS)- Distribution records of marine organisms from the Indian Ocean.

Published: February 18, 2021 at 04:22

URL: http://ipt.iobis.org/indobis/resource?r=indobisdataset-80001-82000

Chippy Khader
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology

Johnny Konjarla
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology

Saravanane Narayanane
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology

CMLRE
CMLRE

2,000

occurrence records

579

taxa

424

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	2,000	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	1,363	68.2%
minimumDepthInMeters	1,366	68.3%
scientificNameID	58	2.9%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	1,363	68.2%
ON_LAND	314	15.7%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	73	3.6%
NO_MATCH	54	2.7%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	10	0.5%
NOT_MARINE	2	0.1%

IndOBIS Dataset (80001-82000)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data