This data consists of counts of putative zooplankton OTUs, revealed through metabarcoding of the cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene extracted from filtered water samples in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary during 2016. It includes results from 95 water samples taken over three days at three coral reef sites. After data processing, a total of 194 taxa were identified; the identification was to the species level, with only a few to the genus level.

Citation: Djurhuus A, Peralta A C, Pitz K, Sawaya N A, Rojas-Marquez J, Michaud B, Montes E, Muller-Karger F, Breitbart M (2025). Marine zooplankton community structure through environmental DNA metabarcoding in the Florida Keys, collected by the South Florida Program (NOAA/AOML) and the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON). Version 1.4. NOAA Integrated Ocean Observing System. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/resource?r=mbonfknmsedna&v=1.4

Published: June 03, 2025 at 17:37

URL: https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/resource?r=mbonfknmsedna

Anni Djurhuus
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida

Ana Carolina Peralta
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida

Kathleen Pitz
Monterey Bay Aquatic Research Institute

Natalie A. Sawaya
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida

Jaimie Rojas-Marquez
Fundacion La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, Estacion de Investigaciones Marinas

Brianna Michaud
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida

Enrique Montes
Cooperative Institute for Marine & Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS)

Frank Muller-Karger
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida

Mya Breitbart
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida

Stephen Formel
U.S. Geological Survey

Mathew Biddle
United States Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (US MBON)

3,123

occurrence records

3,123

sequences

192

taxa

139

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	3,123		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	16	0.5%
MARINE_UNSURE	9	0.3%
NOT_MARINE	2	0.1%

Marine zooplankton community structure through environmental DNA metabarcoding in the Florida Keys, collected by the South Florida Program (NOAA/AOML) and the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data