Extraction of type locality information from the World Register of Marine Species.

Citation: WoRMS Editorial Board (2021). Type locality distributions from the World Register of Marine Species. Available from http://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ. Accessed on YYYY-MM-DD.

Published: November 23, 2025 at 11:00

URL: http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=worms_type_localities

WoRMS Steering Committee
WoRMS Steering Committee

Leen Vandepitte
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

39,935

occurrence records

30,689

taxa

28,807

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	39,260	51	98.4%
decimalLatitude		6	0.0%
decimalLongitude		8	0.0%
eventDate	23,955	2	60.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	30,458		76.3%
minimumDepthInMeters	18,798		47.1%
scientificNameID		137	0.3%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	17,076	42.8%
ON_LAND	9,078	22.7%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	3,362	8.4%
MARINE_UNSURE	2,405	6.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	920	2.3%
NOT_MARINE	195	0.5%
NO_MATCH	137	0.3%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX	68	0.2%
NO_COORD	11	0.0%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE	8	0.0%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE	6	0.0%
ZERO_COORD	1	0.0%

Type locality distributions from the World Register of Marine Species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data