OBIS Canada

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OBIS Canada is the Canadian regional node of the International Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS).

Maria Cornthwaite
OBISCanada@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

14,107,791
occurrence records
13,387
taxa
10,675
species
271
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
basisOfRecord 2 546,309
3.9%
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 11,689,397 64,178
83.3%
decimalLatitude 126,371 39,540
1.2%
decimalLongitude 126,400 39,543
1.2%
eventDate 1,010,007 120,049
8.0%
individualCount 722
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 9,485,387 3,617
67.3%
minimumDepthInMeters 9,970,079 2,012
70.7%
occurrenceStatus 2,113,712 120,891
15.8%
scientificName 18,512
0.1%
scientificNameID 219,709 247,854
3.3%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 9,486,218
67.2%
ON_LAND 1,883,704
13.4%
NO_COORD 165,945
1.2%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 159,390
1.1%
NO_MATCH 117,585
0.8%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 91,445
0.6%
NOT_MARINE 52,765
0.4%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 39,543
0.3%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE 39,540
0.3%
MARINE_UNSURE 32,685
0.2%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 6,537
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 5,196
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 4,581
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_NO_BIOTA 2,481
0.0%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 2,272
0.0%
SCIENTIFICNAMEID_EXTERNAL 748
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE_LOSS 113
0.0%
ZERO_COORD 74
0.0%
DATE_IN_FUTURE 71
0.0%
DATE_BEFORE_MIN 3
0.0%