A literature based dataset comprises of distribution records of marine organisms reported from the Indian Ocean region gathered as part of the MLR Programme- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Citation: Indian Ocean Biodiversity Information System (IndOBIS)- Distribution records of marine organisms from the Indian Ocean.

Published: January 19, 2022 at 08:48

URL: http://ipt.iobis.org/indobis/resource?r=indobisdataset-54001-56000

Chippy Khader
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology

Johnny Konjarla
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology

Saravanane Narayanane
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology

2,000

occurrence records

277

taxa

272

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	2,000	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	1,070	53.5%
minimumDepthInMeters	1,944	97.2%
scientificNameID	9	0.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	1,070	53.5%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	82	4.1%
ON_LAND	56	2.8%
NO_MATCH	8	0.4%
MARINE_UNSURE	3	0.1%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	2	0.1%

IndOBIS Dataset (54001-56000)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data