Commander Islands shelf and slope, Russia - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Commander Islands shelf and slope, Russia

Statistics

Occurrence records	5,883
Species level	3,835
Species	162
Taxa	197
Datasets	30
Time range	1849 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	0
No WoRMS match	11
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	0
No accepted name available	1

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	457	1,990
eventDate	63	0
maximumDepthInMeters	2,944	0
minimumDepthInMeters	2,893	2
occurrenceStatus	294	0
scientificNameID	42	0

Spatial issues

Records on land	3
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	48

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Global Kelp Timeseries from NCEAS/KEEN Working Group Published 2022-06-06	2,560
Land-based observations of cetaceans in the waters of Beringa Island in 2007-2009 Published 2021-04-24	1,949
Happywhale - Humpback whale in North Pacific Ocean Published 2025-03-17	819
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	204
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	62
Type locality distributions from the World Register of Marine Species Published 2025-03-20	43
Global benthic biogeographical regions and macroecological drivers for ophiuroids [Data set] Published 2023-11-30	39
Arctic benthic invertebrate collection of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science Published 2019-10-01	32
Cetacean observations in the waters of Karaginsky Island and Beringa Island in 2009 Published 2021-04-24	27
National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Fishes Collections Published	26

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	2,058
Alaria Greville, 1830 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	320
Laminaria J.V. Lamouroux, 1813 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	320
Agarum Dumortier, 1822 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	320
Thala H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	320
Saccharina latissima (Linnaeus) C.E.Lane, C.Mayes, Druehl & G.W.Saunders, 2006 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	320
Nereocystis Postels & Ruprecht, 1840 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	320
Laminaria yezoensis Miyabe, 1902 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	320
Pleurophomopsis Petr., 1924 Phylum Ascomycota > Class Dothideomycetes	320
Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	276

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Poecillastra malyutini Shilov, Kamenev & Semenchenko, 2023 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	1	2018
Vulcanella koltuni Shilov, Kamenev & Semenchenko, 2023 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	1	2018
Cercops caecus Kireev & Golovan in Kireev, Golovan & Sharina, 2023 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2018
Munidopsis piipa Marin, 2020 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	6	2016
Vulcanella grebelnyi Shilov, Kamenev & Semenchenko, 2023 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	1	2016
Desmodora hydrothermica Mordukhovich, Fadeeva, Semenchenko,Kiyashko & Scripova, 2023 Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea	1	2016
Desmodora spongiophila Mordukhovich, Fadeeva, Semenchenko,Kiyashko & Scripova, 2023 Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea	1	2015
Desmodora spongiocola Mordukhovich, Fadeeva, Semenchenko,Kiyashko & Scripova, 2023 Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea	1	2013
Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	2	2009
Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	276	2007

Data providers

Name	Records
Duke University	2,812
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	2,601
Boston University, Department of Biology	2,560
University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies	2,560
Coastal Marine Ecology and Conservation Lab, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University	2,560
Far East Russia Orca Project	1,976
Happywhale	819
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	238
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	230
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	83