Dataset

Biodiversity of the Gulf of Mexico Database (BioGoMx)

OBIS Secretariat Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Subset of the original biotic inventory of the Gulf of Mexico, only containing marine mammal, seabird and/or sea turtle records.

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

126,292
occurrence records
13,252
taxa
12,212
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 126,292
100.0%
eventDate 126,292
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 23,913
18.9%
minimumDepthInMeters 23,913
18.9%
occurrenceStatus 126,292
100.0%
scientificNameID 2,760 595
2.7%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 54,881
43.5%
NO_DEPTH 23,913
18.9%
ON_LAND 6,601
5.2%
NOT_MARINE 3,505
2.8%
MARINE_UNSURE 2,106
1.7%
NO_MATCH 1,669
1.3%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 690
0.5%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 52
0.0%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 38
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data