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 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 · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · Type localities · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · World Oceans · XYZ ASCII · 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] Temporal coverage
19 June 1816 - 19 January 2024 (EurOBIS harvested data) Taxonomic coverage
Biota [WoRMS]
Parameter
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Contributors
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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: 2026-01-26
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