A literature based dataset comprises of distribution records of marine organisms reported from the Indian Ocean region gathered as part of the MLR Programme- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Citation: Indian Ocean Biodiversity Information System (IndOBIS)- Distribution records of marine organisms from the Indian Ocean.

Published: January 06, 2021 at 09:19

URL: http://ipt.iobis.org/indobis/resource?r=indobisdataset-62001-64000

Chippy Khader
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology

Saravanane Narayanane
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology

CMLRE
CMLRE

Johnny Konjarla

2,000

occurrence records

826

taxa

618

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	2,000		100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	1,353		67.7%
minimumDepthInMeters	1,619		81.0%
scientificNameID	55	4	2.9%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	1,353	67.7%
ON_LAND	482	24.1%
NO_MATCH	51	2.5%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	22	1.1%
NOT_MARINE	7	0.4%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	6	0.3%
MARINE_UNSURE	2	0.1%

IndOBIS Dataset (62001-64000)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data