Dataset

Benthic species from the tropical Pacific surrounding New Caledonia

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Benthic species from the tropical Pacific surrounding New Caledonia.

Citation: Bertrand RICHER DE FORGES (IRD) & Philippe BOUCHET (MNHN). 1998. Benthic species from the tropical Pacific. IRD-Noumea

Published: September 17, 2025 at 09:13

URL: http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=new_caledonia

Philippe Bouchet
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle; Department Systematics and Evolution

Marine Biological Association of the UK
Marine Biological Association of the UK

Institut de Recherche pour le Développement; Centre de Nouméa
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement; Centre de Nouméa

58,156
occurrence records
8,025
taxa
8,052
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 58,156
100.0%
eventDate 58,156
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 1,346
2.3%
minimumDepthInMeters 1,298
2.2%
scientificNameID 1,319 96
2.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 10,168
17.5%
NO_DEPTH 1,283
2.2%
ON_LAND 1,040
1.8%
NO_MATCH 1,039
1.8%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 168
0.3%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 136
0.2%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 100
0.2%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 54
0.1%
NOT_MARINE 15
0.0%
MARINE_UNSURE 3
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data