Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS)

The Ocean Biodiversity information System (OBIS) aims to absorb, integrate, and assess isolated datasets into a larger, more comprehensive picture of life in our oceans. The system is expected to stimulate research about our oceans to generate new hypotheses concerning evolutionary processes, species distributions, and roles of organisms in marine systems on a global scale.

OBIS provides a portal or 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.