Name: Uruguay Nearshore Zooplankton
License: To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

This study presents a first general analysis of the zooplankton assemblages from the Uruguayan coastal/estuarine ecosystems. The database considered comprised information from seven sites representing three different types of environment: coastal Río de la Plata (Punta Brava and Playa del Buceo in Montevideo, and Bahía Maldonado in Maldonado), coastal plain estuary (Arroyo Solís Grande), and coastal lagoons (José Ignacio, Garzón and Rocha lagoons).

Citation

Fabio Lang da Silveira and Rubens M. Lopes Zooplankton assemblages from the Uruguayan coastal and estuarine ecosystems. WSAOBIS, São Paulo, November 2008, Version 1, Publication.

Published

January 08, 2026 at 17:48

First registration

July 17, 2026 at 12:01

License

To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

URL

https://ipt.sibbr.gov.br/obis-brasil/resource?r=uruguay_nearshore_zooplankton

Archive

https://ipt.sibbr.gov.br/obis-brasil/archive.do?r=uruguay_nearshore_zooplankton

Contacts

OBIS Secretariat
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

Alexandre Marino
Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental (CRIA)

total submitted occurrences

accepted occurrences

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	50	100.0%
eventDate	50	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	50	100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	50	100.0%
occurrenceStatus	50	100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		50	100.0%
ON_LAND		50	100.0%

Uruguay Nearshore Zooplankton

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data