Name: Hitchhikers Guide to Exotic Species
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

The MIT Sea Grant "Hitchhiker's Guide to Exotic Species" is a field guide for beachcombers, students and other interested citizens. The guide contains color photographs and identification information on several introduced species and a few native species (for comparison). It may be used simply for information, or to help track the spread of invasive species.

Citation

MIT Sea Grant College Program (MITSG) (2007) Hitchhikers Guide to Exotic Species Dataset; generated by ; using Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) [online application]. Cambridge, MA: MITSG, Massachusetts Institute of Technology [producer], New Brunswick, NJ: OBIS, Rutgers University Institute of Marine and Coastal Science [distributor]. http://www.iobis.org/mapper; accessed on [date].

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

URL

http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/resource?r=mitsg_hg

Archive

http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/archive.do?r=mitsg_hg

Contacts

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sea Grant Program
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sea Grant Program

OBIS Secretariat
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

total submitted occurrences

accepted occurrences

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	25	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	25	100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	25	100.0%
occurrenceStatus	25	100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		25	100.0%
ON_LAND		11	44.0%

Hitchhikers Guide to Exotic Species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data