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: January 23, 2026 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)

40,113

occurrence records

30,774

taxa

28,807

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	39,437	51	98.4%
decimalLatitude		7	0.0%
decimalLongitude		9	0.0%
eventDate	24,044	2	59.9%
maximumDepthInMeters	30,583		76.2%
minimumDepthInMeters	18,876		47.1%
scientificNameID		230	0.6%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	17,151	42.8%
ON_LAND	9,121	22.7%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	3,376	8.4%
MARINE_UNSURE	2,412	6.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	921	2.3%
NO_MATCH	230	0.6%
NOT_MARINE	199	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