Welcome to OBIS, the Ocean Biogeographic Information System, providing an interface to marine species data from all over the world, as part of the Census of Marine Life. You can search OBIS by species, by region, or by taxonomic group, plot distributions on maps, view data, and/or export data to on-line modelling packages or to your own applications. OBIS also provides links to our data contributors and to many other sources of information about individual marine species, including a variety of educational and technical resources. IMPORTANT NOTICE: Use of any or all data from OBIS is subject to acceptance of the OBIS Data Use Agreement.

 Enter a species name in the "Express Search" box below, or choose one of the other available search options:

Express Search - search for: (whole word/s only; default is scientific name search)

example:Atlantic salmon example: Salmo or Salmo salar

other search options:      Full Scientific Name/Category Search      Browse OBIS Taxonomic Categories
 Advanced Search - including search by date, depth range, custom region, etc.    


search engine entry point  (list all species)

Quick links to our data contributors:
Australian Antarctic Data Centre   BATS Zooplankton  Biogeoinformatics of Hexacorals   BioMar   Biotic Database of Indo-Pacific Marine Mollusks    CephBase    FishBase
Fishnet    Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System    History of Marine Animal Populations    Maritimes Region Homepage (Canada)
U.S. National Ocean Data Center (NODC)    OBIS-SEAMAP   The Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS)  Southampton Oceanography Center   South Carolina Department of Natural Resources  SeamountsOnline    ZooGene

OBIS is supported by - for more information, see our Sponsors Page.

OBIS is a project of the

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