Dataset

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

SWP OBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

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 Information is assimilated from a variety of sources including unpublished data sets and digitised from journal articles.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
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=mbis_nz
Archive
https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/archive.do?r=mbis_nz

Contacts

Kevin Mackay
NIWA

14,926
total submitted occurrences
14,852
accepted occurrences
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 Dropped 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%

Measurement types

DNA derived data