Dataset

Marine Biodiversity in Ilha Grande Bay Rio de Janeiro State - Southwest Brazil

OBIS Brazil Open in mapper Explore occurrences

This data set includes the results of the Marine Rapid Assessment Protocol sampling activities undertaken in summer 2003 and winter 2004 at forty three different localities along Ilha Grande Bay, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. Macroalgae and animal (invertebrates and fish) samples were obtained, either from rocky as well from sand beaches including infralitoral by SCUBA diving.

Citation
Silveira FL, Lopes RM (2008): Marine Biodiversity in Ilha Grande Bay Rio de Janeiro State - Southwest Brazil. v1. Tropical and Subtropical Western South Atlantic OBIS. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.iobis.org/wsaobis/resource?r=marine_biodiversity_in_ilha_grande_bay&v=1.0
Published
January 08, 2026 at 17:16
First registration
July 17, 2026 at 12:01
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License
URL
https://ipt.sibbr.gov.br/obis-brasil/resource?r=marine_biodiversity_in_ilha_grande_bay
Archive
https://ipt.sibbr.gov.br/obis-brasil/archive.do?r=marine_biodiversity_in_ilha_grande_bay

Contacts

OBIS Secretariat
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

Alexandre Marino
Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental (CRIA)

Rubens Lopes
Universidade de São Paulo

7,012
total submitted occurrences
6,975
accepted occurrences
642
taxa
515
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 7,012
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 165
2.4%
minimumDepthInMeters 165
2.4%
occurrenceStatus 7,012
100.0%
scientificNameID 54 18
1.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 1,618
23.1%
ON_LAND 870
12.4%
NO_DEPTH 165
2.4%
NO_MATCH 37
0.5%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 1
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data