Dataset

Biological samples from the french oceanographic fleet's deep-sea cruises

EurOBIS MeasurementOrFact Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Description of biological samples collected during deep-sea campaigns operated by the French oceanographic fleet since 2011. These data are acquired by underwater devices during the campaigns and then stored by Ifremer's CNDO (Centre National de Donnees Oceanographiques) Sismer. These data are mainly located in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and around mainland France.

Citation: Olu K, Cannat M, Arnaud-Haond S, Rabouille C, Lallier F, Blandin J, Cambon-Bonavita M, Justiniano J, Sarradin P, Fouquet Y, Fabri M, Gillet H, Soubigou O, Menot L, Cotten C (2025). Biological samples from the french oceanographic fleet's deep-sea cruises. Version 1.3. IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea. Samplingevent dataset. 10.15468/dl.ey5ub5

Published: September 17, 2025 at 08:30

URL: http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=biocean

Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer

Mathilde Cannat
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

Christophe Rabouille
LSCE, UMR CEA-CNRS-UVSQ and IPSL

Jean-Paul Justiniano

Hervé Gillet
Université de Bordeaux

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

Ruben Perez Perez
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Global Biodiversity Information Facility

32,714
occurrence records
3,417
measurements and facts
3,646
taxa
3,727
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 7,177
21.9%
scientificNameID 347 433
2.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 5,914
18.1%
ON_LAND 865
2.6%
NO_MATCH 665
2.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 111
0.3%

Measurement types

DNA derived data