Agulhas Front

Statistics

Occurrence records 87,532
Species level 54,885
Species 1,302
Taxa 1,927
Datasets 130
Time range 1813 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 17
No WoRMS match 454
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 105
No accepted name available 9,451

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 81,685 3,495
eventDate 6,622 0
maximumDepthInMeters 59,779 50
minimumDepthInMeters 59,317 50
occurrenceStatus 40,498 0
scientificName 169 0
scientificNameID 582 97

Spatial issues

Records on land 151
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 837

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Diomedea exulans Linnaeus, 1758 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
11,223
Biota incertae sedis
6,836
Phoebetria fusca (Hilsenberg, 1822) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
6,654
Mirounga leonina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
4,949
Thalassarche melanophris (Temminck, 1828)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
4,077
Procellaria aequinoctialis Linnaeus, 1758 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
3,945
Arctocephalus gazella (Peters, 1875)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
2,474
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata
2,381
Fiona Alder & Hancock, 1853
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
2,000
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
1,923

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
9 2023
Micromonas pusilla (Butcher) Manton & Parke, 1960
Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Mamiellophyceae
10 2023
Cylindrotheca closterium (Ehrenberg) Reimann & J.C.Lewin, 1964
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
22 2023
Colaconema daviesii (Dillwyn) Stegenga, 1985
Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae
10 2023
Florenciella parvula Eikrem, 2004
Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Dictyochophyceae
12 2023
Seriola lalandi Valenciennes, 1833
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
11 2023
Arctocephalus australis (Zimmermann, 1783)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
27 2023
Bathycoccus prasinos Eikrem & Throndsen, 1990
Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Mamiellophyceae
12 2023
Corallina ferreyrae E.Y.Dawson, Acleto & Foldvik, 1964
Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae
11 2023
Chloroparvula pacifica Lopes dos Santos, Noël & Eikrem, 2017
Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Chloropicophyceae
38 2023