Dataset

BMSM Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum

OBIS USA Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Part of The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum's mission is to promote collection-based research on shells and mollusks, with emphasis on Southwest Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. The Shell Museum assists scholars and citizen scientists from around the world by answering questions, providing interlibrary loans, and by offering both physical and Web access to our extensive shell collection, when needed. Our Science Director, Dr. José H. Leal, is a leading malacologist and also the Editor-in-Chief of The Nautilus, a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles on diverse aspects of the biology, ecology, and systematics of mollusks.

Citation: Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum (BMSM)

Published: May 09, 2025 at 15:15

URL: https://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=bmnsm-shell

Joanna McCaffrey
iDigBio

José H. Leal

135,200
occurrence records
2,533
taxa
2,139
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 135,200
100.0%
decimalLatitude 100,193
74.1%
decimalLongitude 100,192
74.1%
eventDate 57,922 30,410
65.3%
maximumDepthInMeters 124,316 1
92.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 104,715 2
77.5%
occurrenceStatus 135,200
100.0%
scientificNameID 135,200
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 104,685
77.4%
NO_COORD 100,193
74.1%
NO_MATCH 14,644
10.8%
ON_LAND 12,703
9.4%
NOT_MARINE 7,749
5.7%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 760
0.6%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 758
0.6%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 412
0.3%
MARINE_UNSURE 188
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 12
0.0%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 10
0.0%
DEPTH_OUT_OF_RANGE 1
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data