Name: Type locality distributions from the World Register of Marine Species
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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: May 23, 2026 at 10:00

License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

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

Contacts:

WoRMS Steering Committee
WoRMS Steering Committee

Leen Vandepitte
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

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

40,618

occurrence records

31,151

taxa

29,279

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	39,921		98.3%
decimalLatitude		7	0.0%
decimalLongitude		9	0.0%
eventDate	24,265	2	59.7%
maximumDepthInMeters	30,926		76.1%
minimumDepthInMeters	19,078	1	47.0%
scientificNameID		188	0.5%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	17,301	42.6%
ON_LAND	9,239	22.7%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	3,419	8.4%
MARINE_UNSURE	2,419	6.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	923	2.3%
NOT_MARINE	208	0.5%
NO_MATCH	188	0.5%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX	78	0.2%
NO_COORD	12	0.0%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE	9	0.0%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE	7	0.0%
DEPTH_OUT_OF_RANGE	1	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