European Ocean Biodiversity Information System

EurOBIS point locations EurOBIS - the European Node
of the international Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) - publishes distribution data on marine species, collected within European marine waters or collected by European researchers
outside European marine waters.
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EurOBIS currently holds:
1,479 datasets
of which 625 datasets published with DOI
48,265,611 occurrence records
198,976,606 extended Measurement Or Facts (eMoF) records
43,577,897 quality controlled records (90% QC'd)
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Latest additions & updates

[2025-06-02] ICES contaminants and biological effects (58,801 records) [update] [metadata]
[2025-06-02] North Sea international bottom trawl survey (2,960,513 records) [update] [metadata]
[2025-06-02] French Southern Atlantic bottom trawl survey (602,963 records) [update] [metadata]
[2025-06-02] Beam trawl surveys (1,674,589 records) [update] [metadata]
[2025-06-02] Rockall survey ICES Vib (40,141 records) [update] [metadata]
[2025-06-02] Irish ground fish survey (586,251 records) [update] [metadata]
[2025-06-02] Baltic international trawl surveys (1,295,257 records) [update] [metadata]
[2025-06-02] SHARK - National zoobenthos monitoring in Sweden since 1971 (16,320 records) [update] [metadata]
[2025-06-02] Macrobenthos monitoring in function of dredge disposal monitoring in... (12,605 records) [update] [metadata]
[2025-06-02] Macrobenthos monitoring at long-term monitoring stations in the... (15,606 records) [update] [metadata]

Species documented for the first time in EurOBIS

[2025-04-24]Cheilopogon melanurus (Valenciennes, 1847)[map][WoRMS]
[2025-04-24]Azadinium caudatum var. margalefii Nézan & Chomérat, 2012[map][WoRMS]
[2025-04-24]Mesodinium major Garcia-Cuetos, Moestrup & Hansen, 2012[map][WoRMS]
[2025-04-24]Imogine necopinata Sluys, Faubel, Rajagopal & van der Velde, 2005 accepted as Stylochus necopinata (Sluys, Faubel, Rajagopal & van der Velde, 2005)[map][WoRMS]
[2025-04-24]Aulodrilus pigueti Kowalewski, 1914[map][WoRMS]
[2025-04-24]Chelicorophium sowinskyi (Martynov, 1924)[map][WoRMS]
[2025-04-24]Phallodrilus parthenopaeus Pierantoni, 1902[map][WoRMS]
[2025-04-24]Potamocorbula amurensis (Schrenck, 1861)[map][WoRMS]
[2025-04-24]Chelicorophium maeoticum (Sowinsky, 1898)[map][WoRMS]
[2025-04-24]Heleobia charruana (A. d'Orbigny, 1841)[map][WoRMS]

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