Original provider: Happywhale Dataset credits: Happywhale and contributors Abstract: Happywhale.com is a resource to help you know whales as individuals, and to benefit conservation science with rich data about individual whales.

Citation: Happywhale. 2026. Happywhale - Killer whale in North Pacific Ocean. Version 1.4.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP and originated from Happywhale.com. https://doi.org/10.82144/1131e581.

Published: January 15, 2026 at 21:53

URL: http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1718

Ted Cheeseman
Happywhale.com

OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

6,878

occurrence records

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters		1	0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	6,878		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	6,878		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		6,878	100.0%
ON_LAND		32	0.5%

Happywhale - Killer whale in North Pacific Ocean

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data