Statistics

Last updated on Fri, 2013-01-11 05:05. Originally submitted by evberghe on 2011-04-15 12:51.

Below is an overview of some of the vital statistics of OBIS, including number of records available through the search interface, number of species and number of datasets; the numbers between brackets are those for the last two data loads, and show progress booked since then. The graph shows how the number of records increased over time.

  • Number of records: 35.5 (33.6, 32.7, 32.3) million
    • Number of records identified to species or infraspecies: 27.32 (26.3, 25.52, 25.19) million
    • Number of records identified to genus or better: 31.1 (29.8, 28.5, 28.4) million
  • Number of valid species with data reported to OBIS: 146,496 (145,899; 145,317; 145,153)
  • Number of valid marine taxa in OBIS: 163,313 (162,139; 161,620; 161,493)
    • Number of valid marine species: 120,259 (119,337; 118,937; 118,801)
    • Number of valid marine genera: 27,333 (27,228; 27,154; 27,086)
  • Number of datasets: 1,130 (1,125; 1,072; 1,056)

OBIS Progress

OBIS Progress: Number of records in OBIS, in millions.

Census of Marine LifeIODE&IOC Universidad Simón BolívarRutgers

OBIS strives to document the ocean's diversity, distribution and abundance of life. Created by the Census of Marine Life, OBIS is now part of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, under its International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) programme