Dataset

National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Fishes Collections

OBIS Secretariat Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The online Fish Collection database includes all relevant information for each cataloged lot of specimens. Please note that slightly over 50% of the holdings are presently listed and records are constantly added. Data included in the Locality field are directly from a collector's field notes or from cruise logs. Geographic retrieval fields added by cataloging staff are based on internally defined criteria and may not be geographically accurate.

Citation
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution NMNH Fishes Collection Database. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th and Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20560-0193, 2007.
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/resource?r=nmnh-vzfishes
Archive
http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/archive.do?r=nmnh-vzfishes

Contacts

Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History (NMNM)
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History (NMNM)

OBIS Secretariat
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

Jeff Williams
Smithsonian Institution; National Museum of Natural History (NMNM)

114,408
total submitted occurrences
111,811
accepted occurrences
9,408
taxa
8,793
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 114,408
100.0%
eventDate 1,698
1.5%
maximumDepthInMeters 20,484 5
17.9%
minimumDepthInMeters 59,796
52.3%
occurrenceStatus 114,408
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 19,844
17.3%
ON_LAND 18,065
15.8%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 8,925
7.8%
NOT_MARINE 2,597
2.3%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 530
0.5%
MARINE_UNSURE 31
0.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 14
0.0%
DEPTH_OUT_OF_RANGE 5
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data