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 All Marine Fauna + Flora combo of the World Oceans

[   World   ]
[   Arctic   ]
[   North Atlantic   ]
[   South Atlantic   ]
[   Southern Ocean   ]
[   Indian Ocean   ]
[   South Pacific   ]
[   North Pacific   ]
[   Baltic Sea   ]
[   Mediterranean Sea   ]
[   Australia subregion   ]
Data Access
Links Table
The data files linked below are all-taxa Reference Compilations.

If you only want data from a single taxa group (e.g., only copepods or diatoms or dolphins),
follow the taxa group links found in the main MZGdb map interface pages.

The "All Invertebrates" files contain data from all of the zooplankton (crustacean+non-crustacean) and benthic taxa groups and subgroups.
The "All Vertebrates" files contain data from all of the fish and megafauna taxa groups and subgroups.
The "All Microbes + Protists" files contain data from all of the phytoplankton (microbes and protists) taxa groups and subgroups.
The "All Marine Fauna + Flora Combo" files contain all data from the All Invertebrates, All Vertebrates, All Microbes + Protists combined files.

The "World (All-World-Oceans)" geographic region includes data from all of the other ocean and seas sub-regions.

The "Mode-A" files contain species-only barcodes for species found in the current ocean, but those sequences may come from any other ocean.
The "Mode-B" files contain species-only barcodes sampled only in the current ocean for species found in the current ocean.
The "Mode-C" files contain genus and/or species sequences for species found in the current ocean, but those sequences may come from any other ocean.
The "Mode-D" files contain genus and/or species sequences sampled only in the current ocean for species found in the current ocean.

The entire MZGdb database is therefore available via the "All Plankton Combo (All-World-Oceans) Mode-A" data files.

MZGdb DATA FILES

Database-Version:   v2026-m01-01		 Mode-A

COI barcodes = 608708
12s barcodes = 47924
16s barcodes = 112498
18s barcodes = 37696
28s barcodes = 31459
Mode-B

COI barcodes = 10493
12s barcodes = 230
16s barcodes = 717
18s barcodes = 156
28s barcodes = 117
Mode-C

COI barcodes = 833527
12s barcodes = 60702
16s barcodes = 184697
18s barcodes = 76267
28s barcodes = 53971
Mode-D

COI barcodes = 41972
12s barcodes = 1421
16s barcodes = 6547
18s barcodes = 1603
28s barcodes = 1621
FASTA file (*.fasta) MZGdb fasta (mode-A)
COI | 12S | 16S | 18S | 28S

True "barcode" (species-only) data
from ANY ocean (mode-A) 		MZGdb fasta (mode-B)
not applicable 		MZGdb fasta (mode-C)
COI | 12S | 16S | 18S | 28S

Genus-spp and species data
from ANY ocean (mode-C) 		MZGdb fasta (mode-D)
not applicable
Mothur-formatted
Taxonomic Hierarchy file (*.txt)

Paired with fasta file above		 MZGdb Mothur (mode-A)
COI | 12S | 16S | 18S | 28S

True "barcode" (species-only) data
from ANY ocean (mode-A) 		MZGdb Mothur (mode-B)
not applicable 		MZGdb Mothur (mode-C)
COI | 12S | 16S | 18S | 28S

Genus-spp and species data
from ANY ocean (mode-C) 		MZGdb Mothur (mode-D)
not applicable
DADA2 file (*.fastq)

Single "fasta+taxa" DATA2 fastq file		 MZGdb DADA2 (mode-A)
COI | 12S | 16S | 18S | 28S

True "barcode" (species-only) data
from ANY ocean (mode-A) 		MZGdb DADA2 (mode-B)
not applicable 		MZGdb DADA2 (mode-C)
COI | 12S | 16S | 18S | 28S

Genus-spp and species data
from ANY ocean (mode-C) 		MZGdb DADA2 (mode-D)
not applicable
MZGdb v3.0

"full format"

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Format Description		CSV

Excel-friendly full format
comma-separated-values		 MZGdb CSV (mode-A)
COI | 12S | 16S | 18S | 28S

True "barcode" (species-only) data
from ANY ocean (mode-A) 		MZGdb CSV (mode-B)
not applicable 		MZGdb CSV (mode-C)
COI | 12S | 16S | 18S | 28S

Genus-spp and species data
from ANY ocean (mode-C) 		MZGdb CSV (mode-D)
not applicable
PSV

pipe-separated-values		 MZGdb PSV (mode-A)
COI | 12S | 16S | 18S | 28S

True "barcode" (species-only) data
from ANY ocean (mode-A) 		MZGdb PSV (mode-B)
not applicable 		MZGdb PSV (mode-C)
COI | 12S | 16S | 18S | 28S

Genus-spp and species data
from ANY ocean (mode-C) 		MZGdb PSV (mode-D)
not applicable











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