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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
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Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License 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), data creator
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more
Vandepitte, Leen
Related datasets
Parent dataset:
WoRMS: World Register of Marine Species
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
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Dataset information:
Other:
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Literature research
Release date: 2015-01-01
Metadatarecord created: 2015-10-28
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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