Dataset

Biogeographic data from BODC - British Oceanographic Data Centre

EurOBIS OBIS UK Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Partial contribution from the British Oceanographic Data Centre's databases (see below for details on status).

Citation
British Oceanographic Data Centre, UK. Biogeographic data from BODC. in : EurOBIS. http://www.marbef.org/data/eurobissearch.php?dataprovider=47, accessed on [date].
Published
September 17, 2025 at 08:33
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=bodc
Archive
https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=bodc

Contacts

British Oceanographic Data Centre
British Oceanographic Data Centre

Gwenaëlle Moncoiffé
British Oceanographic Data Centre

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

124,043
total submitted occurrences
121,391
accepted occurrences
1,367
taxa
984
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 124,043
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 124,043
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 124,043
100.0%
scientificNameID 1,278 1,384
2.1%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 124,043
100.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 15,648
12.6%
NO_MATCH 2,397
1.9%
ON_LAND 928
0.7%
MARINE_UNSURE 889
0.7%
NOT_MARINE 255
0.2%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 81
0.1%

Measurement types

DNA derived data