Dataset

COMARGIS: Information System on Continental Margin Ecosystems

EurOBIS MeasurementOrFact Open in mapper Explore occurrences

COMARGIS is the Information System of COMARGE (COntinental MARgin Ecosystems on a worldwide scale), a field project of the Census of Marine Life. The core of the system is a relational database implemented in ORACLE. Additional software help the users uploading, retrieving or updating data in the database. The whole system is derived from Biocean, a database developed and maintained by the Deep-Sea Department and the French Oceanographic Data Centre at Ifremer, Brest.

Citation: Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer – IFREMER (2016): COMARGIS: Information System on Continental Margin Ecosystems https://doi.org/10.15468/0djslr

Published: September 17, 2025 at 08:37

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

6,209
occurrence records
6,209
measurements and facts
962
taxa
412
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters 120
1.9%
minimumDepthInMeters 120
1.9%
scientificNameID 141 13
2.5%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 640
10.3%
NO_DEPTH 120
1.9%
NO_MATCH 94
1.5%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 43
0.7%
ON_LAND 36
0.6%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 28
0.5%
MARINE_UNSURE 18
0.3%
NOT_MARINE 2
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data