Name: 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

License

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

URL

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

Archive

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=new_caledonia

Contacts

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

Bertrand Richer de Forges
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement; Centre de Nouméa

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

total submitted occurrences

57,129

accepted occurrences

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	Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	10,168	17.5%
NO_DEPTH	1,283	2.2%
ON_LAND	1,040	1.8%
NO_MATCH	1,012	1.7%
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%

Benthic species from the tropical Pacific surrounding New Caledonia

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data