Hydrothermal Vent Fields - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Hydrothermal Vent Fields

Statistics

Occurrence records	9,257
Species level	1,356
Species	241
Taxa	1,251
Datasets	32
Time range	1849 - 2014

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	28
No WoRMS match	2,902
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	1,113
No accepted name available	80

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	7,703	0
eventDate	335	0
maximumDepthInMeters	2,019	0
minimumDepthInMeters	1,369	0
occurrenceStatus	5,934	0
scientificName	1	0
scientificNameID	6,064	5

Spatial issues

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

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Marine metagenomes from the bioGEOTRACES project (2010-2011) Published 2023-10-27	3,199
Marine metagenomes from the bioGEOTRACES project Published 2022-09-20	3,003
MICROBIS Database (version 1) - European data Published	1,186
COMRAPMS12015 ENV Published 2023-06-22	740
PANGAEA - Data from various sources Published 2025-03-20	647
ChEssBase Published 2025-03-20	190
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	106
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	50
CeDAMar database for benthic biological sampling on the abyssal plains Published 2025-03-20	38
Discovery Collections Midwater Database Published 2021-12-14	16

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
Rimicaris Williams & Rona, 1986 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	357
Rhodobacteraceae Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Alphaproteobacteria	105
Gammaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	101
Bacteria	93
Alphaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Alphaproteobacteria	93
Globigerinoides ruber (d'Orbigny, 1839) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	61
Globorotalia truncatulinoides (d'Orbigny, 1839) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	60
Euryarchaeota Phylum Euryarchaeota	59
Proteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria	58
Trilobatus sacculifer (Brady, 1877) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	55

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Telonema subtile Griessmann, 1913 Phylum Cryptophyta > Class Telonemea	16	2011
Leucocryptos marina (Braarud) Butcher, 1967 Phylum Cryptophyta > Class Cryptophyta incertae sedis	8	2011
Prymnesium parvum N.Carter, 1937 Phylum Haptophyta > Class Coccolithophyceae	8	2011
Gymnodinium aureolum (E.M.Hulburt) Gert Hansen, 2000 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	10	2011
Gymnodinium impudicum (S.Fraga & I.Bravo) Gert Hansen & Moestrup, 2000 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	8	2011
Gephyrocapsa huxleyi (Lohmann) P.Reinhardt, 1972 Phylum Haptophyta > Class Coccolithophyceae	18	2011
Pelagomonas calceolata R.A.Andersen & G.Saunders, 1993 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Pelagophyceae	8	2011
Prochlorococcus marinus Chisholm, Frankel, Goericke, Olson, Palenik, Waterbury, West-Johnsrud & Zettler, 1992 Phylum Cyanobacteria > Class Cyanophyceae	10	2011
Picomonas judraskeda R.Seenivasan, S.Sausen, L.K.Medlin & M.Melkonian, 2013 Phylum Picozoa > Class Picomonadea	12	2011
Alteromonas macleodii Baumann et al., 1972 Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	16	2011

Data providers

Name	Records
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	3,211
European Molecular Biology Laboratory	3,199
MIT	3,003
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	1,307
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	1,186
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	887
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer, IFREMER, Centre de Brest	745
International Seabed Authority	740
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton	191
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	109