Amazonina-Orinoco Influenced Zone - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Amazonina-Orinoco Influenced Zone

Statistics

Occurrence records	59,715
Species level	34,099
Species	3,052
Taxa	5,236
Datasets	125
Time range	1849 - 2021

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	793
No WoRMS match	3,019
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	3,841
No accepted name available	765

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	46,566	5,870
eventDate	10,225	0
maximumDepthInMeters	43,025	13
minimumDepthInMeters	40,573	0
occurrenceStatus	38,370	0
scientificName	713	0
scientificNameID	8,565	103

Spatial issues

Records on land	1,834
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	591

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
MICROBIS Database (version 1) - European data Published	13,812
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	7,355
NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) Fisheries Log Book System (FLS) Commercial Pelagic Logbook Data Published 2021-08-25	3,377
Previous Fisheries REVIZEE Program Published 2021-07-02	3,229
Opportunistic records of marine megafauna in Suriname Published 2021-04-24	2,708
Observatoire Pelagis aerial surveys 2002-2021 Published 2022-01-20	2,431
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	2,337
Marine metagenomes from the bioGEOTRACES project (2010-2011) Published 2023-10-27	2,132
PANGAEA - Data from the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Published 2025-03-20	2,039
Marine metagenomes from the bioGEOTRACES project Published 2022-09-20	1,993

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
Bacteria	2,758
Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,190
Planctomycetaceae Phylum Planctomycetes > Class Planctomycetacia	1,118
Deltaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Deltaproteobacteria	1,029
Xiphias gladius Linnaeus, 1758 NT Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	783
Gammaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	729
Acidobacteriaceae Phylum Acidobacteria > Class Acidobacteria	647
Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	534
Sterna Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	521
Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	444

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Galeocerdo cuvier (Péron & Lesueur, 1822) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	2	2017
Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	1	2017
Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	3	2017
Pyrophacus horologium F.Stein, 1883 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	4	2017
Tripos macroceros (Ehrenberg) Hallegraeff & Huisman, 2020 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	2	2017
Nitzschia panduriformis sensu Hustedt in Schmidt et al., 1921 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	2	2017
Hyalonema (Cyliconemaoida) alucia Moser, Moraes, Castello-Branco, Pequeno & Muricy, 2022 Phylum Porifera > Class Hexactinellida	2	2017
Rhizosolenia fragilissima Bergon, 1903 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	20	2016
Tripos furca (Ehrenberg) F.Gómez, 2013 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	10	2016
Hobaniella longicruris (Greville) P.A. Sims & D.M. Williams in Sims et al., 2018 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	8	2016

Data providers

Name	Records
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	24,480
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	13,812
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	7,355
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	7,352
Duke University	6,553
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	4,057
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	4,043
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	3,997
Wageningen Marine Research	3,882
Green Heritage Fund of Suriname	3,882