Original provider: Happywhale Dataset credits: Happywhale and contributors Abstract: Happywhale.com is a resource to help you know whales as individuals, and to benefit conservation science with rich data about individual whales.

Citation: Happywhale. 2025. Happywhale - Common minke whale in Southern Ocean. Version 1.2.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP and originated from Happywhale.com. https://doi.org//10.82144/4abb57c0.

Published: November 17, 2025 at 21:42

URL: http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1743

Ted Cheeseman
Happywhale.com

OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

188

occurrence records

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters	188		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	188		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		188	100.0%
ON_LAND		11	5.9%

Happywhale - Common minke whale in Southern Ocean

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data