This data set contains 3,102 records: the results of an evaluation of Arctic marine fish specimens in museums and other permanent collections

Citation: Mecklenburg, C. W., T. A. Mecklenburg, B. A. Sheiko, and N. V. Chernova. 4 July 2006. Arctic marine fish museum specimens. Database submitted to ArcOD, Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Published: August 26, 2019 at 14:16

URL: http://geo.abds.is/ipt/resource?r=arc_2007f1

Catherine W. Mecklenburg
California Academy of Sciences; Department of Ichthyology

Russ Hopcroft
University of Alaska Fairbanks - School of Fisheries and Oceans

9,254

occurrence records

264

taxa

244

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	9,254		100.0%
eventDate	9,254		100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	5,057	16	54.8%
minimumDepthInMeters	5,069	11	54.9%
occurrenceStatus	9,254		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	5,067	54.8%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	3,958	42.8%
ON_LAND	944	10.2%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX	48	0.5%
DEPTH_OUT_OF_RANGE	19	0.2%
NOT_MARINE	5	0.1%

Arctic Marine Fish Museum Specimens

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data