Japan-filtered GBIF Octopodoidea occurrence records

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Octopodoidea occurrence records filtered to the Japan bounding box (latitude 25–50, longitude 125–150) and standardized to the common column set shared across all datamuseum Japan data sets. Rows with NA in Source, Family, Genus, SciName,or Year are removed.

Usage

GBIF_Japan

Format

A data frame with 798 rows and 12 variables:

SciName

Scientific name as recorded in GBIF, taken directly from the species field. Trailing NA strings removed.

Genus

Genus name.

Family

Family name.

Year

Year of occurrence record, from year.

Latitude

Decimal latitude, filtered to [25, 50].

Longitude

Decimal longitude, filtered to [125, 150].

Country

Country code, from countryCode.

Prefecture

State or province, from stateProvince.

Precise Location

Locality description, from locality.

Source

Institution code, from institutionCode.

catalogNumber

Museum lot identification code. Used for duplicate detection in museum via deduplicate.

individualCount

Specimen count per lot. Used for row expansion in museum via duplicate.

Source

Derived from the raw GBIF occurrence download. Full source CSVs (raw, trimmed, and Japan-filtered) are available at https://github.com/btorgovitsky00/datamuseum.

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). GBIF.org (30 March 2026) GBIF Occurrence Download. https://www.gbif.org doi:10.15468/dl.2379hj

Details

The raw and trimmed intermediate versions of this data set are available as CSV files in the package data repository. Note that those files contain non-ASCII characters in locality and collector name fields, reflecting the international scope of GBIF occurrence records.

See also

The raw and trimmed intermediate versions of this data set are available as CSV files at https://github.com/btorgovitsky00/datamuseum.

museum for the combined data set including these records.