Occurrence details of New Zealand marine fauna and flora from around the coastline and offshore. Information is assimilated from a variety of sources including unpublished data sets and digitised from journal articles. Where the source is from a published paper the source paper citation is listed at the record level.

Citation: SWPRON (2014). Marine biological observation data from coastal and offshore surveys around New Zealand. Southwestern Pacific OBIS, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, New Zealand, Online http://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource.do?r=mbis_nz

Published: June 30, 2025 at 00:37

URL: https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=mbis_nz

Kevin Mackay
NIWA

14,926

occurrence records

3,076

taxa

2,551

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	1		0.0%
decimalLatitude	2	1	0.0%
decimalLongitude	2	1	0.0%
eventDate	2,057		13.8%
maximumDepthInMeters	2,904		19.5%
minimumDepthInMeters	2,883		19.3%
occurrenceStatus	1		0.0%
scientificNameID	67	36	0.7%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	2,883	19.3%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	1,406	9.4%
ON_LAND	1,386	9.3%
NO_MATCH	61	0.4%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	42	0.3%
NOT_MARINE	10	0.1%
MARINE_UNSURE	8	0.1%
NO_COORD	3	0.0%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE	1	0.0%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE	1	0.0%

Marine biological observation data from coastal and offshore surveys around New Zealand

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data