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The UK OBIS Node is hosted at the Marine Biological Association (MBA) in Plymouth, UK. The MBA is one of the world’s longest-running societies dedicated to promoting research into our oceans and the life they support. Since 1884 we have been providing a unified, clear, independent voice on behalf of the marine biological community and currently have a growing membership in over 40 countries. We also run a leading marine biological research laboratory where many eminent scientists - including 7 Nobel prize winners - have carried out their research.

Dan Lear
dble@mba.ac.uk

Chloe Figueroa Ashforth
chlfig@mba.ac.uk

Ellen Jones
elljon@mba.ac.uk

Kevin Paxman
kevpax@mba.ac.uk

Emma Seal
emmsea@mba.ac.uk

21,619,939
occurrence records
22,546
taxa
18,151
species
292
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
basisOfRecord 132,992
0.6%
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 16,502,587 1,124
76.3%
decimalLatitude 5,109
0.0%
decimalLongitude 5,109
0.0%
eventDate 4,140,393 12
19.2%
individualCount 5,794
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 8,351,665 132,994
39.2%
minimumDepthInMeters 8,488,407 132,992
39.9%
occurrenceStatus 10,936,820 110,624
51.1%
scientificName 641,938
3.0%
scientificNameID 4,956,724 1,281,530
28.9%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 8,200,647
37.9%
ON_LAND 4,241,790
19.6%
NO_MATCH 1,352,124
6.3%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 739,750
3.4%
MARINE_UNSURE 213,392
1.0%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 93,561
0.4%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 19,965
0.1%
NOT_MARINE 14,935
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE_LOSS 7,877
0.0%
NO_COORD 5,109
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_GROUPING 1,698
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 1,595
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 869
0.0%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 315
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_NO_BIOTA 41
0.0%
DATE_IN_FUTURE 8
0.0%