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:
1,251 datasets
of which 591 datasets published with DOI
30,124,812 occurrence records
56,981,689 extended Measurement Or Facts (eMoF) records
25,509,149 quality controlled records (85% QC'd)
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Latest additions & updates

[2023-03-06] MAREANO - Base-line mapping of epifauna obtained with Beamtrawl (27,537 records) [update] [metadata]
[2023-03-06] MAREANO - Base-line mapping of fauna obtained with grab (49,211 records) [update] [metadata]
[2023-03-06] MAREANO - Base-line mapping of hyperbenthic crustacea fauna obtained... (16,920 records) [update] [metadata]
[2023-03-06] SHARK - National marine bacterioplankton monitoring in Sweden since... (16,334 records) [update] [metadata]
[2023-03-06] SHARK - National phytoplankton monitoring in Sweden since 1983 (221,868 records) [update] [metadata]
[2023-03-06] SHARK - National zoobenthos monitoring in Sweden since 1971 (138,893 records) [update] [metadata]
[2023-03-06] SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Ringed seal in... (9,734 records) [update] [metadata]
[2023-03-06] SHARK - Regional monitoring, recipient control and monitoring projects... (277,208 records) [update] [metadata]
[2023-03-06] MAREANO - Base-line mapping of epifauna obtained with Beamtrawl (27,537 records) [update] [metadata]
[2023-03-06] MAREANO - Base-line mapping of fauna obtained with grab (49,211 records) [update] [metadata]

Species documented for the first time in EurOBIS

[2022-12-06]Ampelisca uncinata Chevreux, 1887[map][WoRMS]
[2022-12-06]Rhachotropis northriana d'Udekem d'Acoz, Vader & Legezinska, 2007[map][WoRMS]
[2022-12-06]Leucothoe vaderotti Krapp-Schickel, 2018[map][WoRMS]
[2022-12-06]Rhachotropis tumida G.O. Sars, 1893 accepted as Rhachotropis inflata (G.O. Sars, 1883)[map][WoRMS]
[2022-12-06]Lepechinella victoriae Johansen & Vader, 2015[map][WoRMS]
[2022-12-06]Byblis medialis Mills, 1971[map][WoRMS]
[2022-12-06]Heteromesus dentatus Hansen, 1916[map][WoRMS]
[2022-12-06]Oecidiobranchus plebejum (Hansen, 1916)[map][WoRMS]
[2022-12-06]Cyclotrichium gigas Fauré-Frémiet, 1924[map][WoRMS]
[2022-12-06]Strombidium minor Kahl, 1935[map][WoRMS]

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