A literature based dataset comprises 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 19, 2022 at 04:09

URL: http://ipt.iobis.org/indobis/resource?r=indobisdataset-50001-52000

Chippy Khader
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology

Johnny Konjarla
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology

Saravanane Narayanane
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology

2,000

occurrence records

646

taxa

607

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	2,000	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	1,788	89.4%
minimumDepthInMeters	1,788	89.4%
scientificNameID	23	1.1%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	1,788	89.4%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	286	14.3%
ON_LAND	276	13.8%
MARINE_UNSURE	51	2.5%
NO_MATCH	22	1.1%
NOT_MARINE	21	1.1%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	10	0.5%

IndOBIS Dataset (50001-52000)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data