Australia: Christmas Island - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Australia: Christmas Island

Statistics

Occurrence records	13,869
Species level	7,421
Species	1,412
Taxa	1,847
Datasets	79
Time range	1809 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	3,340
No WoRMS match	137
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	4
No accepted name available	374

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	9,186	0
eventDate	5,434	0
maximumDepthInMeters	8,118	0
minimumDepthInMeters	9,009	0
occurrenceStatus	3,488	0
scientificName	31	0
scientificNameID	734	41

Spatial issues

Records on land	7,199
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	3,695

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	3,255
Taxonomically comprehensive assessment of biodiversity of animal plankton throughout the world ocean Published	1,880
Western Australian Museum Fish Collection - Marine records Published 2023-06-28	1,521
Western Australian Museum Mollusc Collection, Australia (1905-2016) Published 2023-06-28	1,004
Western Australian Museum Marine Invertebrate Collection (1904-2018) Published 2023-06-28	939
Diversity of the Indo-Pacific (DIPnet) Published	572
Asia-Pacific Dataset Published 2024-06-14	556
Australian Museum Malacology Collection - Marine records Published 2022-06-08	527
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	397
Jellyfish Database Initiative: Global records on gelatinous zooplankton for the past 200 years, collected from global sources and literature, subset of records from Australian and adjacent seas. (1907-2011) Published 2023-05-11	338

Distribution

Disclaimer: EEZ boundaries based on Marine Regions (no endorsement).

Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa

Scientific name	Records
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	239
Sula sula (Linnaeus, 1766) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	229
Phaethon lepturus Daudin, 1802 Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	199
Pisces Phylum Chordata	156
Decapoda Latreille, 1802 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	153
Thaliacea Van der Hoeven, 1850 Phylum Chordata > Class Thaliacea	135
Siphonophorae Eschscholtz, 1829 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	133
Hydrozoa Owen, 1843 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	130
Copelata Phylum Chordata > Class Appendicularia	118
Gastropoda Cuvier, 1795 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	114

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	2023
Bathypectinura heros (Lyman, 1879) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	1	2022
Ophiomyces delata Koehler, 1904 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	4	2022
Ophiosphalma glabrum (Lütken & Mortensen, 1899) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	3	2022
Cerataspis monstrosus Gray, 1828 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2022
Orphnurgus insignis Fisher, 1907 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea	9	2021
Orphnurgus glaber Walsh, 1891 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea	9	2021
Propeamussium alcocki (E. A. Smith, 1894) Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia	5	2021
Laetmonice hutchingsae Flaxman & Kupriyanova, 2024 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	12	2021
Laetmonice murrayae Flaxman & Kupriyanova, 2024 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	18	2021

Data providers

Name	Records
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	5,842
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	3,256
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	3,255
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	3,022
Western Australian Museum	2,759
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	2,253
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	1,880
Australian Museum	1,021
Perth Cultural Centre	1,004
Diversity of the Indo-Pacific Network	572