Name: Type locality distributions from the World Register of Marine Species
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Extraction of type locality information from the World Register of Marine Species.

Citation: WoRMS Editorial Board (2021). Type locality distributions from the World Register of Marine Species. Available from http://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ. Accessed on YYYY-MM-DD.

Published: June 23, 2026 at 10:00

License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

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

Contacts:

WoRMS Steering Committee
WoRMS Steering Committee

Leen Vandepitte
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

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

40,768

occurrence records

31,151

taxa

29,279

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	40,066		98.3%
decimalLatitude		7	0.0%
decimalLongitude		10	0.0%
eventDate	24,335	2	59.7%
maximumDepthInMeters	31,040		76.1%
minimumDepthInMeters	19,137	1	46.9%
scientificNameID		261	0.6%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	17,354	42.6%
ON_LAND	9,279	22.8%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	3,431	8.4%
MARINE_UNSURE	2,421	5.9%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	923	2.3%
NO_MATCH	261	0.6%
NOT_MARINE	221	0.5%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX	78	0.2%
NO_COORD	13	0.0%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE	10	0.0%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE	7	0.0%
DEPTH_OUT_OF_RANGE	1	0.0%
ZERO_COORD	1	0.0%

Type locality distributions from the World Register of Marine Species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data