Iles Boavista (Cape Verde) - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Iles Boavista (Cape Verde)

Statistics

Occurrence records	198
Species level	187
Species	105
Taxa	111
Datasets	24
Time range	1849 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	5
No WoRMS match	8
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	0
No accepted name available	5

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	789	15
eventDate	17	0
maximumDepthInMeters	780	0
minimumDepthInMeters	754	0
occurrenceStatus	101	0
scientificName	4	0
scientificNameID	87	0

Spatial issues

Records on land	0
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	8

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
FishBase Database Published 2023-03-23	71
Happywhale - Humpback whale in North Atlantic Ocean Published 2025-03-17	20
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	18
Type locality distributions from the World Register of Marine Species Published 2025-03-20	16
Cetacean sightings in Boa Vista, Cape Verde Published 2023-04-06	13
Counts of seabirds, marine mammals and other megafauna during POLARSTERN cruise ANT-XXVIII/1 Published 2025-03-20	12
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Cnidaria Collection (Cnidaria) Published 2025-03-20	12
CETUS: Cetacean monitoring surveys in the Eastern North Atlantic Published 2025-03-20	6
Hexacorallians of the world Published 2020-06-09	5
Historical distribution of whales shown by logbook records 1785-1913 Published 2023-02-08	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
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	34
Porites astreoides Lamarck, 1816 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	7
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU Phylum Chordata	5
Calonectris edwardsii (Oustalet, 1883) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	4
Desmophyllum pertusum (Linnaeus, 1758) VU Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	4
Porifera Grant, 1836 Phylum Porifera	3
Rhizoprionodon acutus (Rüppell, 1837) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	3
Pseudupeneus prayensis (Cuvier, 1829) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	3
Delphinidae Gray, 1821 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	3
Sula leucogaster (Boddaert, 1783) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	3

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	2017
Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792) EN Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	1	2015
Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray, 1846 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	2011
Steno bredanensis (G. Cuvier in Lesson, 1828) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	2011
Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	2011
Phaethon aethereus Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	2	2011
Calonectris diomedea (Scopoli, 1769) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	2	2011
Calonectris edwardsii (Oustalet, 1883) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	4	2011
Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763 Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	2	2007
Conus vulcanus M. Tenorio & Afonso, 2004 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1	2004

Data providers

Name	Records
Swedish Museum of Natural History	71
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	52
Duke University	44
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	23
Happywhale	20
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	18
WoRMS Steering Committee	16
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen	14
Conor Ryan	13
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas de Vigo	6