Dataset

Diversity of the Indo-Pacific (DIPnet)

OBIS USA Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Not for profit network of biodiveristy researchers that primarily use molecular tools to study marine systems.

Citation
Deck J, Gaither MR, Ewing R, Davies N, Meyer C, Riginos C, Toonen R, Crandall E. The Genomic Observatories Metadatabase (GeOMe): A new repository for field and sampling event metadata associated with genetic samples. Plos Biology In review.
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)

Contacts

Laura Russell

38,787
total submitted occurrences
38,123
accepted occurrences
249
taxa
238
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 15,465
39.9%
decimalLatitude 4
0.0%
decimalLongitude 4 7
0.0%
eventDate 38,787
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 34,485 4,302
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 37,455
96.6%
occurrenceStatus 38,787
100.0%
scientificNameID 38,787
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 37,455
96.6%
ON_LAND 8,580
22.1%
NO_MATCH 655
1.7%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 514
1.3%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 449
1.2%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 250
0.6%
NO_COORD 11
0.0%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 7
0.0%
NOT_MARINE 2
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data