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
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new data loaded, 11 May 2012
We have loaded new data to the OBIS portal. The total number of records available through the international OBIS portal is now 32.7 million, 1072 different data sets. See the news page for details.