Agulhas Bank Nursery Area - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Agulhas Bank Nursery Area

Statistics

Occurrence records	66,456
Species level	48,939
Species	593
Taxa	831
Datasets	53
Time range	1871 - 2019

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	1
No WoRMS match	270
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	0
No accepted name available	287

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	66,688	2
eventDate	545	0
maximumDepthInMeters	45,154	0
minimumDepthInMeters	44,996	0
occurrenceStatus	65,827	0
scientificName	66	0
scientificNameID	419	10

Spatial issues

Records on land	14,355
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	168

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Marine and Coastal Management - Demersal Surveys (AfrOBIS) Published 2020-12-02	28,100
Marine and Coastal Management - Linefish Dataset (AfrOBIS) Published 2020-12-02	25,630
Marine and Coastal Management - Copepod Surveys Published 2020-12-02	9,126
iziko South African Museum - Shark collection Published 2020-12-02	1,355
The Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking (Standardised) Data from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Published 2024-10-23	365
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	355
Taxonomically comprehensive assessment of biodiversity of animal plankton throughout the world ocean Published	276
Natal Museum - Mollusc Collection Published 2020-12-02	243
Occurrence records of southern African aquatic biodiversity Published 2024-05-09	216
iziko South African Museum - Crustacean Collection Published 2020-12-02	180

Distribution

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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
Argyrozona argyrozona (Valenciennes, 1830) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	5,695
Merluccius Rafinesque, 1810 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	4,881
Argyrosomus De la Pylaie, 1835 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	3,908
Loligo reynaudii A. d'Orbigny, 1841 Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda	3,374
Selachii Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	2,114
Merluccius capensis Castelnau, 1861 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,741
Calanoides carinatus (Krøyer, 1849) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1,642
Calanus agulhensis De Decker, Kaczmaruk & Marska, 1991 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1,642
Squalus megalops (MacLeay, 1881) Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	1,453
Thyrsites atun (Euphrasen, 1791) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,438

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Pachastrella monilifera Schmidt, 1868 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	1	2019
Atlantia denticulata Filander & Kitahara, 2021 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1	2016
Ophiuroglypha costata (Lyman, 1878) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	2	2015
Digitosepia shazae (Lipinski & Leslie, 2018) Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda	1	2014
Thalassarche melanophris (Temminck, 1828) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	14	2011
Puffinus gravis (O'Reilly, 1818) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	2	2010
Procellaria aequinoctialis Linnaeus, 1758 VU Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	349	2010
Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763 Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	2	2009
Latrunculia (Biannulata) gotzi Samaai, Janson & Kelly, 2012 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	2	2009
Latrunculia (Biannulata) kerwathi Samaai, Janson & Kelly, 2012 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	2	2009

Data providers

Name	Records
CSIR / SADCO / AfrOBIS	64,888
Marine and Coastal Management; Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism	62,868
Marine and Coastal Management Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism	34,768
iziko South African Museum	1,739
British Antarctic Survey	437
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	425
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen	409
National Institute for Water & Atmospheric Research	368
Unviersité Libre de Bruxelles — Laboratoire de Biologie Marine	368
Alfred-Wegener-Institut (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung)	365