Name: FRA-PLANKTON DATASET
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

This dataset contains occurrence information of zooplankton obtained by research cruise related to the Japan Fisheries and Education Agency (FRA) from 1960 to 2003 in the Oyashio, Kuroshio-Oyashio Transition, and Kuroshio waters in the western North Pacific Ocean.

Citation

Tadokoro, K., Sugisaki, H. (2019) The Odate collection. Available at https://www.godac.jamstec.go.jp/bismal/e/dataset/FRA-PLANKTON. Accessed on yyyy-mm-dd.

Published

April 24, 2026 at 07:25

First registration

October 25, 2019 at 10:25

License

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

URL

https://www.godac.jamstec.go.jp/ipt/resource?r=fra-plankton

Archive

https://www.godac.jamstec.go.jp/ipt/archive.do?r=fra-plankton

Contacts

Kazuaki Tadokoro
Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency

1,068,392

total submitted occurrences

1,068,391

accepted occurrences

344

taxa

277

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	1,068,392	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	933,893	87.4%
minimumDepthInMeters	933,893	87.4%
scientificNameID	1	0.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	933,893	87.4%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	100,058	9.4%
SCIENTIFICNAMEID_EXTERNAL	2	0.0%
NOT_MARINE	1	0.0%

FRA-PLANKTON DATASET

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data