EBSA No. 13: South of Tuvalu/Wallis & Fortuna/North of Fiji Plateau

Statistics

Occurrence records 18,464
Species level 14,829
Species 1,524
Taxa 1,779
Datasets 62
Time range 1849 - 2020

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 3
No WoRMS match 163
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 5
No accepted name available 18

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 7,860 3,683
eventDate 4,420 0
maximumDepthInMeters 9,723 0
minimumDepthInMeters 10,598 0
occurrenceStatus 6,021 0
scientificName 68 0
scientificNameID 266 5

Spatial issues

Records on land 1,678
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 4,552

Distribution

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

Records

18601880190019201940196019802000202005001000150020002500300035004000

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Gygis alba (Sparrman, 1786)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1,011
Onychoprion Wagler, 1832
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
569
Sula sula (Linnaeus, 1766)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
461
Ophiuridae Müller & Troschel, 1840
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea
410
Phaethon lepturus Daudin, 1802
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
379
Anous Stephens, 1826
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
251
Puffinus Brisson, 1760
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
224
Ctenochaetus striatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
193
Conotrochus brunneus (Moseley, 1880)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia
184
Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) abrupta Cairns, 1999
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia
143

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Mesoplodon densirostris (de Blainville, 1817)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
1 2019
Fascaplysinopsis ronquinni Ekins, Erpenbeck & Hooper, 2023
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
1 2018
Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861) CR
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
1 2015
Stenella attenuata (Gray, 1846)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
2 2015
Rhincodon typus Smith, 1828 EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
17 2014
Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
17 2014
Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray, 1846
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
12 2014
Grampus griseus (G. Cuvier, 1812)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
9 2014
Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
12 2014
Indopacetus pacificus (Longman, 1926)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
7 2014

Data providers

Name Records
Pacific Community 3,973
Direction du Service d'Etat de l'Agriculture, de la Forêt et de la Pêche des îles Wallis et Futuna 3,973
Duke University 3,466
Observatoire Pelagis UMS 3462, University La Rochelle - CNRS 3,453
Observatoire PELAGIS, UMS 3462, University La Rochelle-CNRS 3,453
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 3,149
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 2,409
National Institute for Water & Atmospheric Research 2,189
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute 1,458
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Centre de Nouméa 1,246