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Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) is a marine biogeographic information system. It concentrates on datasets that record particular species (or higher taxonomic groups) from particular marine locations, at particular times. At present, OBIS can only publish data where the locations are recorded as latitude and longitude, not as place names. The focus is on high taxonomic quality, therefore datasets where organisms have been identified by professional or trained biologists are available online. This link provides a gateway to many datasets containing information on where and when marine species have been recorded. The datasets are integrated so you can search them all seamlessly by species name, higher taxonomic level, geographic area, depth, and time; and then map and find environmental data related to the locations. Currrently it stores over 16.4 million records of 104 000 species from 492 databases.

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Title Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/82729f85-bd8a-49ba-984c-73a582de81c6
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
info@iobis.org
Reference Period 07/03/2015
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        -180.0,
        -80.0
      ],
      [
        180.0,
        -80.0
      ],
      [
        180.0,
        80.0
      ],
      [
        -180.0,
        80.0
      ],
      [
        -180.0,
        -80.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/ocean-biogeographic-information-system-obis