IMIS

Type locality distributions 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. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/5184

Contact: Vandepitte, Leen

Access data

Archived data

Availability:

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

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

Lineage

Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output

Scope

Themes:

Biology > Ecology - biodiversity

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, Type localities, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, World Oceans, Biota

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -180; MinLat: -78,8667 - MaxLong: 180; MaxLat: 89,0172 [WGS84]

World Oceans [Marine Regions]

Taxonomic coverage

Biota [WoRMS]

Contributors

WoRMS Steering Committee (SC), more, data creator

Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more

Vandepitte, Leen

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