Costa Rica Dome

Statistics

Occurrence records 8,682
Species level 6,941
Species 1,300
Taxa 1,668
Datasets 77
Time range 1888 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 18
No WoRMS match 586
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 109
No accepted name available 35

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 6,968 216
eventDate 1,148 0
maximumDepthInMeters 6,277 0
minimumDepthInMeters 4,164 0
occurrenceStatus 5,244 0
scientificName 152 0
scientificNameID 2,561 2

Spatial issues

Records on land 704
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 220

Top datasets

Dataset Records
University of Costa Rica (UCR) Fish Database
Published
1,717
PANGAEA - Data from the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
Published 2025-03-20
1,458
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Published 2025-03-18
1,094
FishNet2 Marine Data
Published 2023-12-19
865
PANGAEA - Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP)
Published 2025-03-20
472
CAS Ichthyology (ICH)
Published 2025-03-24
360
UF Invertebrate Zoology
Published 2024-02-12
282
DMNS Marine Invertebrate Collection (Arctos)
Published 2023-10-01
237
Happywhale - Humpback whale in North Pacific Ocean
Published 2025-03-17
237
World Ocean Database 2009
Published 2020-11-17
223

Distribution

Disclaimer: EEZ boundaries based on Marine Regions (no endorsement).

Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829) VU
Phylum Chordata
260
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
237
Cetacea Brisson, 1762
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
183
Animalia
144
Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
116
Globorotalia menardii (d'Orbigny in Parker, Jones & Brady, 1865)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
115
Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
99
Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
99
Cheloniidae Oppel, 1811
Phylum Chordata
95
Neogloboquadrina dutertrei (d'Orbigny, 1839)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
62

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Phaeocystis globosa Scherffel, 1899
Phylum Haptophyta > Class Coccolithophyceae
1 2018
Fibrocapsa japonica S.Toriumi & H.Takano, 1973
Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Raphidophyceae
1 2018
Scrippsiella acuminata (Ehrenberg) Kretschmann, Elbrächter, Zinssmeister, S.Soehner, Kirsch, Kusber & Gottschling, 2015
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
1 2018
Pyrodinium bahamense L.Plate, 1906
1 2015
Gymnura marmorata (Cooper, 1864) NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
1 2014
Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861) CR
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
1 2012
Ectreposebastes imus Garman, 1899
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2012
Aequorea victoria (Murbach & Shearer, 1902)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
3 2012
Hermissenda crassicornis (Eschscholtz, 1831)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
2 2012
Cliona mariae Pacheco, Carballo, Cruz-Barraza, Schönberg & Calcinai, 2020
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
2 2012

Data providers

Name Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 2,123
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 1,866
University of Costa Rica; Department of Biology Museum of Zoology 1,717
University of Costa Rica; Department of Biology; Museum of Zoology 1,717
Duke University 1,416
InvertEBase 1,095
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1,094
NOAA, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Fisheries Resources Division, La Jolla 1,061
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute 865
NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center 710