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

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

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

occurrence records

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	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%

Biogeographic data from BODC - British Oceanographic Data Centre

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data