iNaturalist Research-grade Observations Marine Subset

Occurrence
Latest version published by Marine Biological Association on Sep 1, 2026 Marine Biological Association
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Publication date:
September 1, 2026
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CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Description

Observations from iNaturalist.org, an online social network of people sharing biodiversity information to help each other learn about nature, that have been filtered for marine observations only by the Marine Biological Association. They are updated at a monthly basis. Observations included in this archive met the following requirements: * Published under one of the following licenses or waivers: 1) https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/, 2) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, 3) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ * Achieved one of following iNaturalist quality grades: Research * Created on or before 2026-07-20 15:00:18 -0700 You can view observations meeting these requirements at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?created_d2=2026-07-20+15%3A00%3A18+-0700&d1=1600-01-01&license=CC0%2CCC-BY%2CCC-BY-NC&quality_grade=research

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 11,568,267 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

iNaturalist contributors, iNaturalist (2026). iNaturalist Research-grade Observations Marine Subset. Version 2.0. Marine Biological Association. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.17031/0bbcjx

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Marine Biological Association. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

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Keywords

Occurrence

Contacts

iNaturalist contributors
  • Originator
iNaturalist
iNaturalist
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Point Of Contact
iNaturalist
  • PO Box 150357
94915 San Rafael
CA
US
Marine Biological Association
  • Custodian Steward
Marine Biological Association
PL1 2PB Plymouth
Devon
GB

Geographic Coverage

Bounding Box

Bounding Coordinates South West [-84.413, -0], North East [89.99, 0]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1768-09-17 / 2026-07-20

Sampling Methods

No Description available

Quality Control Data in the DNADerivedData extension is not subject to quality control. Sequences are capitalized, but are otherwise included verbatim. iNaturalist provides no way for users to verify that a sequence is similar to others associated with the same taxon or others associated with the same locus, nor does it enforce any formatting beyond capitalization.

Method step description:

  1. Observation recorded and verified by the community