Golfo de Fonseca - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Golfo de Fonseca

Statistics

Occurrence records	2,039
Species level	1,565
Species	390
Taxa	524
Datasets	33
Time range	1926 - 2019

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	4
No WoRMS match	50
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	1
No accepted name available	2

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	1,828	1
eventDate	756	0
maximumDepthInMeters	1,290	0
minimumDepthInMeters	1,369	0
occurrenceStatus	1,720	0
scientificName	33	0
scientificNameID	435	0

Spatial issues

Records on land	91
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	66

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	710
National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Fishes Collections Published	504
CAS Invertebrate Zoology (IZ) Published 2025-03-17	144
Ocean Genome Legacy Collection Published 2022-08-15	137
FishBase Database Published 2023-03-23	89
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Published 2025-03-18	81
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 2003, Cruise 1624 Published 2022-03-03	55
Happywhale - Humpback whale in North Pacific Ocean Published 2025-03-17	40
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	38
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 2000, Cruise 1615 Published 2022-03-03	36

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
Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829) VU Phylum Chordata	100
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	40
Batrachoides waltersi Collette & Russo, 1981 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	32
Ophichthus zophochir Jordan & Gilbert, 1882 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	29
Anchoa Jordan & Evermann, 1927 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	25
Stellifer Oken, 1817 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	24
Sciaenidae Cuvier, 1829 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	22
Symphurus elongatus (Günther, 1868) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	22
Myrophis vafer Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	20
Anadara J. E. Gray, 1847 Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia	18

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Lobotes pacifica Gilbert, 1898 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2011
Elops affinis Regan, 1909 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2011
Goniopsis pulchra (Lockington, 1877) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2	2011
Ucides occidentalis (Ortmann, 1897) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2	2011
Larkinia grandis (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829) Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia	15	2011
Thaisella kiosquiformis (Duclos, 1832) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	4	2011
Uca ornata (Smith, 1870) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	10	2011
Mugil hospes Jordan & Culver, 1895 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2008
Menticirrhus elongatus (Günther, 1864) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	3	2008
Urotrygon rogersi (Jordan & Starks, 1895) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	1	2008

Data providers

Name	Records
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	710
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	579
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	542
Duke University	206
California Academy of Sciences	163
NOAA, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Fisheries Resources Division, La Jolla	161
NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center	147
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	142
Northeastern University Marine Science Center	137
Swedish Museum of Natural History	89