Banco de la Plata y Banco de la Navidad - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Banco de la Plata y Banco de la Navidad

Statistics

Occurrence records	5,231
Species level	5,132
Species	192
Taxa	254
Datasets	30
Time range	1849 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	4
No WoRMS match	14
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	0
No accepted name available	0

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	353	44
eventDate	155	0
maximumDepthInMeters	4,995	0
minimumDepthInMeters	4,999	0
occurrenceStatus	386	0
scientificName	10	0
scientificNameID	26	1

Spatial issues

Records on land	1
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	55

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Happywhale - Humpback whale in North Atlantic Ocean Published 2025-03-17	2,850
YoNAH Encounter Published 2021-04-24	1,884
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	117
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	112
Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment - Fish Published	85
Sea turtle tracking in Bonaire 2003-2011 Published 2021-04-24	42
National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Fishes Collections Published	38
SEFSC Caribbean Survey 1995 Published 2021-09-08	26
Diveboard - Scuba diving citizen science observations Published 2025-03-20	11
Historical distribution of whales shown by logbook records 1785-1913 Published 2023-02-08	11

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
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	4,742
Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus, 1766) CR Phylum Chordata	46
Acanthurus coeruleus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	24
Acanthurus bahianus Castelnau, 1855 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	15
Exocoetidae Risso, 1827 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	14
Cephalopholis fulva (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	14
Microspathodon chrysurus (Cuvier, 1830) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	10
Scarus iseri (Bloch, 1789) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	8
Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 VU Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	7
Eunicea Lamouroux, 1816 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	7

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Diodon holocanthus Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2009
Gymnothorax moringa (Cuvier, 1829) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2009
Pterois volitans (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2009
Chaetodon ocellatus Bloch, 1787 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2009
Aulostomus maculatus Valenciennes, 1841 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2009
Urobatis jamaicensis (Cuvier, 1816) Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	1	2009
Condylactis gigantea (Weinland, 1860) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1	2009
Meandrina meandrites (Linnaeus, 1758) CR Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1	2009
Pseudodiploria clivosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786) NT Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1	2009
Stenella frontalis (Cuvier, 1829) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	2	2006

Data providers

Name	Records
Duke University	4,824
Happywhale	2,852
University of Southern Maine	1,884
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	240
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	150
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	117
Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, University of Miami	85
Sea Turtle Conservation Bonaire	42
NOAA, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Miami Laboratory	28
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	14