Dataset

Marine and Coastal Management - Linefish Dataset (AfrOBIS)

AfrOBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Marine and Coastal Management (MCM)'s linefish dataset is collected around the South African Coast, and currently contains 2759599 records of 63 families.

Citation
Marine and Coastal Management - Linefish Dataset
Published
December 02, 2020 at 14:11
First registration
September 14, 2019 at 16:50
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
http://ipt.iobis.org/afrobis/resource?r=mcm_linefish
Archive
https://ipt.iobis.org/afrobis/archive.do?r=mcm_linefish

Contacts

Marine and Coastal Management Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism
Marine and Coastal Management Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism

Chris Wilke
Marine and Coastal Management; Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism

Ursula von St Ange
CSIR / SADCO / AfrOBIS

2,744,958
total submitted occurrences
2,744,112
accepted occurrences
203
taxa
167
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 2,744,958
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 2,744,958
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 2,744,958
100.0%
occurrenceStatus 2,744,958
100.0%
scientificNameID 846
0.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 2,744,958
100.0%
ON_LAND 1,378,095
50.2%
NO_MATCH 846
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data