Gulf of Guayaquil

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Statistics

Occurrence records 20,397
Species level 18,261
Species 811
Taxa 1,084
Datasets 61
Time range 1849 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 45
No WoRMS match 394
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 115
No accepted name available 1,743

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 18,393 9
eventDate 1,040 0
maximumDepthInMeters 3,942 614
minimumDepthInMeters 3,940 613
occurrenceStatus 1,835 0
scientificName 14 0
scientificNameID 1,019 457

Spatial issues

Records on land 207
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 76

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Distribution

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Records

Composition

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Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia 		2,455
Animalia
692
Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii 		637
Biota
339
Tripos brevis (Ostenfeld & Johannes Schmidt) F.Gómez, 2013
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae 		264
Coscinodiscus granii Gough, 1905
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		250
Tripos trichoceros (Ehrenberg) Gómez, 2013
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae 		246
Tripos furca (Ehrenberg) F.Gómez, 2013
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae 		215
Protoperidinium depressum (Bailey, 1854) Balech, 1974
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae 		208
Tripos massiliensis (Gourret) F.Gómez, 2013
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae 		203

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Amphidinium carterae Hulburt, 1957
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae 		1 2023
Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii 		4 2015
Ulva lactuca Linnaeus, 1753
Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Ulvophyceae 		3 2013
Telmatactis panamensis (Verrill, 1869)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia 		3 2013
Acanthais brevidentata (W. Wood, 1828)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda 		10 2013
Amphibalanus amphitrite (Darwin, 1854)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Thecostraca 		6 2013
Echinolittorina paytensis (R. A. Philippi, 1847)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda 		5 2013
Brachidontes semilaevis (Menke, 1848)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia 		4 2013
Siphonaria maura G. B. Sowerby I, 1835
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda 		3 2013
Vasula melones (Duclos, 1832)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda 		5 2013

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