Dataset

CAS Invertebrate Zoology (IZ)

OBIS USA Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The electronic catalog of the invertebrate zoology collection at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Published: March 16, 2026 at 22:53

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: http://ipt.calacademy.org:8080/resource?r=invz

Contacts:

Christina Piotrowski
California Academy of Sciences

271,310
occurrence records
18,292
taxa
14,920
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 131,776
48.6%
decimalLatitude 27,285
10.1%
decimalLongitude 27,291
10.1%
eventDate 25,021 38
9.2%
maximumDepthInMeters 214,626 1
79.1%
minimumDepthInMeters 132,462 2
48.8%
occurrenceStatus 271,310
100.0%
scientificName 59
0.0%
scientificNameID 271,310
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 132,464
48.8%
ON_LAND 34,041
12.5%
NO_COORD 27,291
10.1%
NO_MATCH 18,298
6.7%
NOT_MARINE 13,802
5.1%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 13,056
4.8%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 1,653
0.6%
MARINE_UNSURE 1,638
0.6%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 414
0.2%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 30
0.0%
DATE_IN_FUTURE 24
0.0%
DATE_BEFORE_MIN 14
0.0%
DEPTH_OUT_OF_RANGE 3
0.0%
ZERO_COORD 1
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data