European Ocean Biodiversity Information System

EurOBIS point locations EurOBIS - the European Node
of the international Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) - publishes distribution data on marine species, collected within European marine waters or collected by European researchers
outside European marine waters.
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EurOBIS currently holds:
1,413 datasets
of which 625 datasets published with DOI
41,854,253 occurrence records
103,939,157 extended Measurement Or Facts (eMoF) records
37,781,745 quality controlled records (90% QC'd)
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Latest additions & updates

[2024-09-09] ICES Fish predator/prey data (84,778 records) [update] [metadata]
[2024-09-09] Tracking of Arctic tern migrations 2007-2008 (3,468 records) [update] [metadata]
[2024-09-09] Green Balkans cetacean strandings on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast (1,525 records) [update] [metadata]
[2024-09-09] SHARK - National marine bacterioplankton monitoring in Sweden since... (17,387 records) [update] [metadata]
[2024-09-09] SHARK - National phytoplankton monitoring in Sweden since 1983 (248,731 records) [update] [metadata]
[2024-09-09] SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of zooplankton in... (142,166 records) [update] [metadata]
[2024-09-09] Fondazione Cetacea (37 records) [update] [metadata]
[2024-09-09] Islas Canarias (Proyecto Aegina): juvenile loggerheads (169 records) [update] [metadata]
[2024-09-09] North Cyprus 2015 - Green Turtles (13 records) [update] [metadata]
[2024-09-09] Spain-Baleric Is. 2015 Loggerhead Turtles (78 records) [update] [metadata]

Species documented for the first time in EurOBIS

[2024-08-26]Benthalbella elongata (Norman, 1937)[map][WoRMS]
[2024-08-26]Lycodapus antarcticus Tomo, 1982[map][WoRMS]
[2024-08-26]Protomyctophum andriashevi Becker, 1963[map][WoRMS]
[2024-08-26]Paraliparis cerasinus Andriashev, 1986[map][WoRMS]
[2024-08-26]Careproctus longipectoralis Duhamel, 1992[map][WoRMS]
[2024-08-26]Muraenolepis marmorata Günther, 1880[map][WoRMS]
[2024-08-26]Astronesthes boulengeri Gilchrist, 1902[map][WoRMS]
[2024-08-26]Seleniolycus laevifasciatus (Torno, Tomo & Marschoff, 1977)[map][WoRMS]
[2024-08-26]Hintonia candens Fraser-Brunner, 1949[map][WoRMS]
[2024-08-26]Mancopsetta maculata (Günther, 1880)[map][WoRMS]

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