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

3,942,482
occurrence records
16,169
taxa
12,076
species
74
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 3,271,801 492
83.0%
eventDate 24
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 1,389,859
35.3%
minimumDepthInMeters 1,400,663
35.5%
scientificNameID 143,436 4,631
3.8%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 1,389,801
35.3%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 158,332
4.0%
ON_LAND 153,192
3.9%
NO_MATCH 137,689
3.5%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 107,139
2.7%
MARINE_UNSURE 12,883
0.3%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 11,760
0.3%
NOT_MARINE 5,881
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 5,165
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 2,528
0.1%
SCIENTIFICNAMEID_EXTERNAL 1,210
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%