Central Indian Basin - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Central Indian Basin

Statistics

Occurrence records	14,274
Species level	7,210
Species	312
Taxa	507
Datasets	52
Time range	1837 - 2015

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	1
No WoRMS match	552
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	0
No accepted name available	335

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	15,291	0
eventDate	5,495	0
maximumDepthInMeters	10,627	2
minimumDepthInMeters	8,290	2
occurrenceStatus	2,925	0
scientificName	2	0
scientificNameID	649	44

Spatial issues

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

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
PANGAEA - Data from the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Published 2025-03-20	4,648
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	3,473
Taxonomically comprehensive assessment of biodiversity of animal plankton throughout the world ocean Published	2,748
Ecoscope tuna bycatch observer data Published 2025-03-20	1,871
Jellyfish Database Initiative: Global records on gelatinous zooplankton for the past 200 years, collected from global sources and literature, subset of records from Australian and adjacent seas. (1907-2011) Published 2023-05-11	367
Ecoscope Observation Database Published 2025-03-20	361
Ecoscope tuna observer data Published 2025-03-20	359
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	64
IndOBIS Dataset (93630-103790) Published 2022-01-19	58
Bigood Published 2025-03-20	49

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
Nuttallides umbonifer (Cushman, 1933) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	277
Oridorsalis umbonatus (Reuss, 1851) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	226
Pullenia bulloides (d'Orbigny, 1846) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	222
Globocassidulina subglobosa (Brady, 1881) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	218
Epistominella exigua (Brady, 1884) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	209
Pisces Phylum Chordata	208
Lobatula wuellerstorfi (Schwager, 1866) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	205
Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	204
Canthidermis maculata (Bloch, 1786) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	199
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	187

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus, 1766) CR Phylum Chordata	1	2007
Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2006
Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) EN Phylum Chordata	7	2005
Megachasma pelagios Taylor, Compagno & Struhsaker, 1983 Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	1	2004
Balaenoptera brydei Olsen, 1913 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	1999
Himantura leoparda Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last, 2008 EN Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	1	1995
Pateobatis jenkinsii (Annandale, 1909) EN Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	1	1995
Stenella longirostris (Gray, 1828) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	2	1990
Megalocranchia abyssicola (E. S. Goodrich, 1896) Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda	1	1990
Teuthowenia pellucida (Chun, 1910) Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda	1	1990

Data providers

Name	Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	5,073
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	3,473
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	3,473
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	2,838
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	2,748
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement	2,596
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	426
National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton	367
University of North Carolina	367
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India	125