Convection Zone East of Honshu - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Convection Zone East of Honshu

Statistics

Occurrence records	83,642
Species level	59,466
Species	1,445
Taxa	2,471
Datasets	58
Time range	1849 - 2022

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	0
No WoRMS match	590
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	1,249
No accepted name available	30,948

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	314,064	35
eventDate	2,749	0
maximumDepthInMeters	253,720	194
minimumDepthInMeters	250,310	194
occurrenceStatus	4,923	0
scientificName	36	0
scientificNameID	827	172

Spatial issues

Records on land	0
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	206

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
FRA-PLANKTON DATASET Published 2024-06-14	34,724
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	15,247
JODC Dataset Published 2024-06-14	6,373
Occurrence dataset of demersal fish and benthic organisms in the deep-sea off the northeastern coast of Japan, recorded by ROV after the 2011 Earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Published 2024-06-14	5,559
Marine Biological Sample Database, JAMSTEC Published 2024-09-30	5,173
PANGAEA - Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Published 2025-03-20	3,584
Image dataset of ophiuroid and other deep sea benthic organisms in 2015 extracted from the survey off Sanriku, Japan, by the research following the Great East Japan Earthquake 2011 Published 2024-06-14	2,830
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	2,566
Fish collection of National Museum of Nature and Science Published 2024-06-14	2,424
MICROBIS Database (version 1) - European data Published	2,090

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
Animalia	7,114
Metridia pacifica Brodsky, 1950 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	3,513
Eucalanus bungii Giesbrecht, 1893 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	2,743
Neocalanus cristatus (Krøyer, 1848) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	2,358
Mesocalanus tenuicornis (Dana, 1849-1852) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	2,068
Calanus pacificus Brodsky, 1948 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1,914
Neocalanus plumchrus (Marukawa, 1921) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1,665
Neocalanus flemingeri Miller, 1988 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1,527
Ophiophthalmus normani (Lyman, 1879) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	1,499
Pseudocalanus newmani Frost, 1989 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1,259

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Ophiacantha bidentata (Bruzelius, 1805) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	1	2019
Lethasterias nanimensis (Verrill, 1914) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea	1	2019
Pedicellaster magister Fisher, 1923 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea	1	2019
Leptychaster anomalus Fisher, 1906 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea	1	2019
Scotoplanes theeli Ohshima, 1915 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea	2	2019
Pannychia virgulifera Ohshima, 1915 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea	6	2019
Pannychia henrici Ludwig, 1894 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea	1	2019
Cleisthenes pinetorum Jordan & Starks, 1904 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	22	2018
Travisia japonica Fujiwara, 1933 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	1	2018
Elassochirus cavimanus (Miers, 1879) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2018

Data providers

Name	Records
Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency	34,724
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	15,248
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	15,248
JAMSTEC Tokyo Office	10,732
Japan Oceanographic Data Center	6,373
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	3,678
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka	2,830
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	2,566
National Museum of Nature and Science, Department of Zoology, Tsukuba	2,424
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	2,216