Name: Happywhale - Pygmy blue whale in Indian Ocean
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Original provider: Happywhale Dataset credits: Happywhale and contributors Abstract: Happywhale.com is a resource to help you know whales as individuals, and to benefit conservation science with rich data about individual whales. Supplemental information: Sightings and images were submitted to Happywhale by contributors. A portion of the Happywhale data were transferred to OBIS-SEAMAP upon the agreement between Happywhale and OBIS-SEAMAP. There may be duplicate records among Happywhale datasets and other OBIS-SEAMAP datasets. The precision of date/time vary per record. Some records have date accuracy up to year only. This dataset includes sightings and photos from the following 2 contributors in alphabetic order: Felicity Jane Hughes; MIM Network

Citation

Happywhale. 2025. Happywhale - Pygmy blue whale in Indian Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1790) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com.

Published

July 15, 2026 at 18:56

First registration

October 12, 2020 at 23:37

License

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

URL

http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1790

Archive

https://ipt.env.duke.edu/archive.do?r=zd_1790

Contacts

Ted Cheeseman
Happywhale

OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

total submitted occurrences

accepted occurrences

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species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters	1		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	1		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		1	100.0%

Happywhale - Pygmy blue whale in Indian Ocean

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data