Equatorial Front and Carnegie Ridge - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Equatorial Front and Carnegie Ridge

Statistics

Occurrence records	76,154
Species level	65,930
Species	1,449
Taxa	2,023
Datasets	101
Time range	1849 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	3
No WoRMS match	2,469
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	388
No accepted name available	7,286

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	76,234	225
eventDate	2,419	0
maximumDepthInMeters	11,860	3,925
minimumDepthInMeters	7,031	3,815
occurrenceStatus	4,169	0
scientificName	167	0
scientificNameID	2,900	3,388

Spatial issues

Records on land	173
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	380

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	62,023
PANGAEA - Data from Climate variability and El Niño Southern Oscillation (CENSOR) Published 2025-03-20	2,742
PANGAEA - Data from various sources Published 2025-03-20	1,085
HMAP Dataset 16: Peru, South-east Pacific Published 2025-03-20	988
PANGAEA - Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Published 2025-03-20	937
Caracterización de la Biodiversidad Microbiológica y de Invertebrados de la Reserva Marina "El Pelado" a escala Taxonómica, Metabolómica y Meta genómica para su uso en salud humana y animal Published 2024-04-08	819
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	812
MONITOREO DE BIODIVERSIDAD DEL INTERMAREAL ROCOSO Reservas Marinas: El Pelado, Bajo Copé y Cantagallo – Machalilla Published 2022-05-24	681
Marcaje satelital de manta raya oceánica (Mobula birostris) en las aguas costeras de Ecuador Published 2024-09-20	635
The Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking (Standardised) Data from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Published 2024-10-23	554

Distribution

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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	2,344
Biota	1,907
Protoperidinium depressum (Bailey, 1854) Balech, 1974 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	1,298
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1,203
Tripos furca (Ehrenberg) F.Gómez, 2013 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	1,169
Coscinodiscus perforatus Ehrenberg, 1844 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	1,042
Paralabrax humeralis (Valenciennes, 1828) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	979
Coscinodiscus sol C.G.Wallich, 1860 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	939
Lauderia pumila Castracane, 1886 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	903
Tripos muelleri Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1826 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	885

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus, 1758) EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	6	2018
Ophioblennius steindachneri Jordan & Evermann, 1898 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	5	2018
Chaetodon humeralis Günther, 1860 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	8	2018
Abudefduf troschelii (Gill, 1862) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	5	2018
Johnrandallia nigrirostris (Gill, 1862) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	8	2018
Prionurus laticlavius (Valenciennes, 1846) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	7	2018
Leptogorgia cuspidata Verrill, 1865 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	6	2018
Leptogorgia pumila (Verrill, 1868) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	10	2018
Muricea californica Aurivillius, 1931 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	10	2018
Tubastraea coccinea Lesson, 1830 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	8	2018

Data providers

Name	Records
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	62,032
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	62,032
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	5,066
University of Southampton Southampton Oceanography Centre	2,742
Sorbonne Université	1,256
Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral	1,229
Duke University	1,004
Instituto del Mar del Perú	995
University of Hull, Oceans Past Initiative	988
The University of Dublin, Trinity College	988