Dataset

IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS

OBIS Secretariat Open in mapper Explore occurrences

IndOBIS (Indian Ocean Node of OBIS) is one of the seven regional nodes established by the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), which is data and information component of Census of Marine Life (CoML). The original dataset, provided by IndOBIS, contains all distribution records. The dataset in OBIS Seamap is a subset of the original dataset, only containing marine mammal, seabird and/or sea turtle records.

Citation: Chavan, VIshwas and C. T. Achuthankutty (editors), IndOBIS Catalogue of Life, Available at http://www.indobis.org/, Retrived day, date, year

URL: http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/resource?r=indobis

Vishwas Chavan
National Chemical Laboratory; Information Division

48,349
occurrence records
13,502
taxa
14,316
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 48,349
100.0%
eventDate 14,846
30.7%
maximumDepthInMeters 48,349
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 48,349
100.0%
occurrenceStatus 48,349
100.0%
scientificNameID 5,054 408
11.3%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 48,349
100.0%
ON_LAND 10,884
22.5%
NO_MATCH 4,370
9.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 687
1.4%
NOT_MARINE 671
1.4%
MARINE_UNSURE 332
0.7%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 76
0.2%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 22
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data