Halong Bay-Catba Limestone Island Cluster - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Halong Bay-Catba Limestone Island Cluster

Statistics

Occurrence records	2,231
Species level	2,087
Species	341
Taxa	401
Datasets	15
Time range	1871 - 2018

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	31
No WoRMS match	123
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	1
No accepted name available	1

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	2,364	0
eventDate	2,144	0
maximumDepthInMeters	2,383	0
minimumDepthInMeters	2,382	0
occurrenceStatus	2,238	0
scientificName	110	0
scientificNameID	173	0

Spatial issues

Records on land	154
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	0

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	1,992
Asia-Pacific Dataset Published 2024-06-14	109
Ichthyology Collection - Royal Ontario Museum Published	31
Fish specimens Published	31
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Published 2025-03-18	19
Fish collection of National Museum of Nature and Science Published 2024-06-14	16
Type locality distributions from the World Register of Marine Species Published 2025-03-20	8
UF Invertebrate Zoology Published 2024-02-12	6
The fishes collection (IC) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris) Published	5
DMNS Marine Invertebrate Collection (Arctos) Published 2023-10-01	4

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
Stolephorus insularis Hardenberg, 1933 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	425
Ostorhinchus pleuron (Fraser, 2005) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	57
Oxyurichthys Bleeker, 1857 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	46
Iniistius trivittatus (Randall & Cornish, 2000) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	46
Pennahia aneus (Bloch, 1793) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	46
Gerres shima Iwatsuki, Kimura & Yoshino, 2007 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	41
Cynoglossus cynoglossus (Hamilton, 1822) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	39
Engyprosopon grandisquama (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	36
Cynoglossus arel (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	31
Epinephelus sexfasciatus (Valenciennes, 1828) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	28

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Spongilla manconiae Calcinai & Bertolino, 2020 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	2	2018
Barbatia virescens (Reeve, 1844) Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia	1	2014
Palmadusta ziczac (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1	2014
Canarium urceus (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1	2014
Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda (Latreille, 1802) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Merostomata	1	2004
Tachypleus tridentatus (Leach, 1819) EN Phylum Arthropoda > Class Merostomata	1	2004
Cladocroce pansinii Bertolino & Calcinai, 2023 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	1	2003
Sargocentron rubrum (Forsskål, 1775) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2002
Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2002
Trachinocephalus myops (Forster, 1801) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2002

Data providers

Name	Records
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	1,992
Frontier Research Center for Global Change/JAMSTEC	109
Royal Ontario Museum	62
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	39
InvertEBase	19
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia	19
National Museum of Nature and Science, Department of Zoology, Tsukuba	16
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	12
WoRMS Steering Committee	8
Florida Museum of Natural History	6