OBIS Canada

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OBIS Canada is the Canadian regional node of the International Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS).

Maria Cornthwaite
OBISCanada@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

14,865,744
occurrence records
13,792
taxa
10,988
species
286
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
basisOfRecord 2 546,309
3.7%
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 12,364,247 64,467
83.6%
decimalLatitude 126,337 39,540
1.1%
decimalLongitude 126,366 39,543
1.1%
eventDate 1,010,006 131,547
7.7%
individualCount 1,700
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 9,539,183 4,045
64.2%
minimumDepthInMeters 10,023,875 2,440
67.4%
occurrenceStatus 2,113,719 121,290
15.0%
scientificName 18,512
0.1%
scientificNameID 730,604 317,971
7.1%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 9,540,442
64.2%
ON_LAND 2,038,871
13.7%
NO_MATCH 218,228
1.5%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 166,596
1.1%
NO_COORD 165,911
1.1%
NOT_MARINE 132,417
0.9%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 98,871
0.7%
MARINE_UNSURE 58,687
0.4%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 39,543
0.3%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE 39,540
0.3%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 6,936
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 5,527
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 4,581
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_NO_BIOTA 2,481
0.0%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 2,272
0.0%
SCIENTIFICNAMEID_EXTERNAL 749
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE_LOSS 113
0.0%
ZERO_COORD 74
0.0%
DATE_IN_FUTURE 71
0.0%
DATE_BEFORE_MIN 3
0.0%