Banks of Northern Brazil and Fernando de Noronha - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Banks of Northern Brazil and Fernando de Noronha

Statistics

Occurrence records	169,279
Species level	46,430
Species	1,209
Taxa	1,676
Datasets	75
Time range	1849 - 2022

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	187
No WoRMS match	4,976
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	212
No accepted name available	87,864

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	172,734	19
eventDate	996	0
maximumDepthInMeters	145,275	0
minimumDepthInMeters	159,160	0
occurrenceStatus	39,334	0
scientificName	11,305	0
scientificNameID	1,757	4,124

Spatial issues

Records on land	3,449
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	191

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
UNESCO eDNA expedition in Brazilian Atlantic Islands: Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas Reserves (Brazil): November 2022 Published 2024-12-08	119,353
Long-term Ecological Monitoring Research Brazilian Oceanic Islands (reef fish) Published 2022-02-02	24,996
ReefSYN \| Standardized datasets of Brazilian reef diversity in space and time - Dataset I: Fish communities from the Brazilian province Published 2024-07-03	9,612
Long-term Ecological Monitoring Research Brazilian Oceanic Islands (benthic community) Published 2022-02-02	7,001
Abundance data of large microzooplankton collected during the ABRACOS 1 and 2 surveys performed along the northeast Brazilian continental shelf, slope and open ocean Published 2025-03-20	1,142
Previous Fisheries REVIZEE Program Published 2021-07-02	842
PANGAEA - Data from Climate: Long-range investigation, mapping and prediction (CLIMAP) Published 2025-03-20	796
ReefSYN \| Standardized datasets of Brazilian reef diversity in space and time - Dataset XIV: Benthic communities from the Brazilian province Published 2024-07-03	767
PANGAEA - Data from various sources Published 2025-03-20	480
ReefSYN \| Standardized datasets of Brazilian reef diversity in space and time - Dataset XIII: Extended benthic communities from the Brazilian province Published 2024-07-03	432

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
Biota incertae sedis	87,550
Chordata Haeckel, 1874 Phylum Chordata	9,218
Animalia	6,981
Stegastes rocasensis (Emery, 1972) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	3,838
Cephalopholis fulva (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	3,323
Acanthurus chirurgus (Bloch, 1787) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	3,096
Thalassoma noronhanum (Boulenger, 1890) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	3,094
Abudefduf saxatilis (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2,171
Holocentrus adscensionis (Osbeck, 1765) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,837
Halichoeres radiatus (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,783

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Micromonas pusilla (Butcher) Manton & Parke, 1960 Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Mamiellophyceae	203	2022
Cylindrotheca closterium (Ehrenberg) Reimann & J.C.Lewin, 1964 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	878	2022
Phaeocystis globosa Scherffel, 1899 Phylum Haptophyta > Class Coccolithophyceae	123	2022
Harengula jaguana Poey, 1865 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	327	2022
Pelagomonas calceolata R.A.Andersen & G.Saunders, 1993 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Pelagophyceae	160	2022
Bellerochea polymorpha Hargraves & Guillard, 1974 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	179	2022
Chloropicon roscoffensis Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem, 2017 Phylum Chlorophyta	66	2022
Stylocheilus polyomma (Mörch, 1863) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	68	2022
Hypanus berthalutzae Petean, Naylor & Lima, 2020 VU Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	69	2022
Chloropicon sieburthii Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem, 2017 Phylum Chlorophyta	268	2022

Data providers

Name	Records
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization	120,103
Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio)	119,367
UNESCO-IOC	119,353
UNESCO-WHC	119,353
Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro	42,593
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina	42,376
Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Campus Sao Paolo	42,041
Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense	10,811
Universidade Federal de Santa Maria	10,811
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte	9,676