OBIS Japan

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OBIS Japan node collects marine species information around Japan. OBIS Japan node is hosted by Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC). Further data and information on marine species around Japan can be found in BISMaL (http://www.godac.jamstec.go.jp/bismal/e/)

Takashi Hosono
hosonot@jamstec.go.jp

Katsunori Fujikura
fujikura@jamstec.go.jp

3,939,369
occurrence records
16,047
taxa
11,968
species
71
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 3,269,267 492
83.0%
eventDate 24
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 1,387,401
35.2%
minimumDepthInMeters 1,398,205
35.5%
scientificNameID 142,817 4,191
3.7%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 1,387,343
35.2%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 158,331
4.0%
ON_LAND 151,037
3.8%
NO_MATCH 137,320
3.5%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 107,139
2.7%
MARINE_UNSURE 12,664
0.3%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 11,755
0.3%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 5,165
0.1%
NOT_MARINE 4,892
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 2,528
0.1%
SCIENTIFICNAMEID_EXTERNAL 1,203
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_GROUPING 334
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_FOSSIL 100
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_HABITAT 52
0.0%
ZERO_COORD 3
0.0%