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: February 23, 2026 at 11:00

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)

40,259

occurrence records

30,848

taxa

28,837

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	39,579	51	98.4%
decimalLatitude		7	0.0%
decimalLongitude		9	0.0%
eventDate	24,105	2	59.9%
maximumDepthInMeters	30,676		76.2%
minimumDepthInMeters	18,923		47.0%
scientificNameID		325	0.8%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	17,193	42.7%
ON_LAND	9,155	22.7%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	3,393	8.4%
MARINE_UNSURE	2,415	6.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	921	2.3%
NO_MATCH	325	0.8%
NOT_MARINE	200	0.5%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX	68	0.2%
NO_COORD	12	0.0%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE	9	0.0%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE	7	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