EBSA No. 15: South Tasman Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records 13,556
Species level 11,966
Species 802
Taxa 1,010
Datasets 90
Time range 1849 - 2019

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 5
No WoRMS match 80
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 40
No accepted name available 435

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 5,326 57
eventDate 1,896 0
maximumDepthInMeters 6,541 77
minimumDepthInMeters 6,539 75
occurrenceStatus 4,357 0
scientificName 31 0
scientificNameID 277 153

Spatial issues

Records on land 0
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 4

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
Diomedea exulans Linnaeus, 1758 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1,958
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
617
Pterodroma macroptera gouldi (Hutton, 1869)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
579
Pterodroma lessonii (Garnot, 1826)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
532
Thalassarche melanophris (Temminck, 1828)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
486
Xiphias gladius Linnaeus, 1758 NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
380
Daption capense (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
356
Arctocephalus australis forsteri (Lesson, 1828)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
337
Pterodroma leucoptera (Gould, 1844) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
194
Puffinus griseus (Gmelin, 1789)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
157

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
5 2014
Istiompax indica (Cuvier, 1832)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
6 2014
Asterionella glacialis Castracane, 1886
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
1 2013
Paralia sulcata (Ehrenberg) Cleve, 1873
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
1 2013
Oithona atlantica Farran, 1908
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
4 2012
Polykrikos schwartzii Bütschli, 1873
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
6 2012
Calocalanus plumulosus (Claus, 1863)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
3 2012
Etmopterus lucifer Jordan & Snyder, 1902
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
7 2012
Arctocephalus australis (Zimmermann, 1783)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
337 2012
Coelorinchus supernasutus McMillan & Paulin, 1993
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
3 2012