IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published on 10 October 2018
Home:
http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/103150071
Publication date:
10 October 2018
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No organization
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Description

IndOBIS (Indian Ocean Node of OBIS) is one of the seven regional nodes established by the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), which is data and information component of Census of Marine Life (CoML). The original dataset, provided by IndOBIS, contains all distribution records. The dataset in OBIS Seamap is a subset of the original dataset, only containing marine mammal, seabird and/or sea turtle records.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Chavan, VIshwas and C. T. Achuthankutty (editors), IndOBIS Catalogue of Life, Available at http://www.indobis.org/, Retrived day, date, year

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

GBIF Registration

This resource has not been registered with GBIF

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

Online dataset http://iobis.org/explore/#/dataset/71 UTF-8 HTML
Metadata http://www.vliz.be/imis/iobis/imis.php?module=dataset&dasid=3446 UTF-8 HTML

Contacts

OBIS Secretariat
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
BE
Vishwas Chavan
  • Point Of Contact
National Chemical Laboratory; Information Division
IN

Geographic Coverage

ISW, Indian Ocean - http://marineregions.org/mrgid/1904

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1757-07-02 / 1956-07-01

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Alternative Identifiers http://ipt.iobis.org/obis/resource?id=imis_dasid_3446