These are the occurrence records of nearly 50,000 marine species (data downloaded from Ocean Biodiversity Information System), which are cleaned, and defined as pelagic and benthic in the column "our class" for further research (Chaudhary et al., 2017; Chaudhary, 2019).
Funding
European Commission’s Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE) funded to Mark J Costello.