EBSA No. 24: Niue Island and Beveridge reef - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

EBSA No. 24: Niue Island and Beveridge reef

Statistics

Occurrence records	38,463
Species level	6,272
Species	863
Taxa	1,397
Datasets	26
Time range	1849 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	164
No WoRMS match	5,990
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	566
No accepted name available	18

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	3,124	0
eventDate	373	0
maximumDepthInMeters	6,771	0
minimumDepthInMeters	6,771	0
occurrenceStatus	3,006	0
scientificNameID	9,377	1

Spatial issues

Records on land	3,312
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	157

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Marine Microbes from RV Investigator voyage IN2016_V03, 170W, Pacific Ocean (2016) Published 2022-08-09	31,239
SPC CoFish Fish Observations Niue 2005 Published 2022-06-19	2,623
UF Invertebrate Zoology Published 2024-02-12	2,549
Reef Life Survey (RLS) around New Zealand region: Reef fish dataset Published 2018-08-08	614
Happywhale - Humpback whale in South Pacific Ocean Published 2025-03-17	361
SPC CoFish Invertebrates Observations Niue 2005 Published 2020-07-12	341
Queensland Museum Corals Published 2023-06-28	171
Vulnerable marine ecosystems in the South Pacific Ocean region Published 2024-05-01	102
Hexacorallians of the world Published 2020-06-09	101
Australian Museum Herpetology Collection - marine records Published 2023-06-28	93

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
Alphaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Alphaproteobacteria	6,526
Syndiniales Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	4,590
Thermoplasmata Phylum Euryarchaeota > Class Thermoplasmata	2,912
Bacteria	2,144
Cyanobacteria Stanier ex Cavalier-Smith, 2002 Phylum Cyanobacteria	1,887
Amoebophrya Koeppen, 1894 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	1,510
Dinophyceae Fritsch, 1927 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	1,418
Pseudomonadales Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	1,315
Rhodospirillales Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Alphaproteobacteria	607
Nitrosopumilaceae Phylum Thaumarchaeota > Class Thaumarchaeota incertae sedis	542

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Chrysochromulina leadbeateri Estep, Davis, Hargreaves & Sieburth, 1984 Phylum Haptophyta > Class Coccolithophyceae	11	2016
Aureococcus anophagefferens Hargraves & Sieburth, 1988 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Pelagophyceae	9	2016
Saccharina japonica (Areschoug) C.E.Lane, C.Mayes, Druehl & G.W.Saunders, 2006 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	9	2016
Psychrobacter marincola Romanenko, Schumann, Rohde, Lysenko, Mikhailov & Stackebrandt, 2002 Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	9	2016
Didymocyrtis tetrathalamus (Haeckel) Sanfilippo & Riedel, 1980 Phylum Radiozoa > Class Polycystina	12	2016
Sulfitobacter pontiacus Sorokin, 1996 Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Alphaproteobacteria	14	2016
Croceibacter atlanticus Cho & Giovannoni, 2003 Phylum Bacteroidetes > Class Flavobacteria	14	2016
Pelagicoccus albus Yoon, Yasumoto-Hirose, Matsuo, Nozawa, Matsuda, Kasai & Yokota, 2007 Phylum Verrucomicrobia > Class Opitutae	12	2016
Pseudoalteromonas marina Nam, Chang, Park, Kwon, Quan, Park, Lee, Yoon & Bae, 2007 Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	32	2016
Pseudotontonia simplicidens (Lynn & Gilron, 1993) Agatha, 2004 Phylum Ciliophora > Class Oligotrichea	19	2016

Data providers

Name	Records
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	31,563
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	31,483
Pacific Community	2,964
Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries	2,964
Florida Museum of Natural History	2,549
National Institute for Water & Atmospheric Research	790
University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies	685
Duke University	366
Happywhale	361
Museum of Tropical Queensland	171