Marginal Ice Zone and Seasonal Ice-Cover Over the Deep Arctic Ocean - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Marginal Ice Zone and Seasonal Ice-Cover Over the Deep Arctic Ocean

Statistics

Occurrence records	56,894
Species level	28,192
Species	433
Taxa	1,086
Datasets	52
Time range	1936 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	9
No WoRMS match	419
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	1,328
No accepted name available	934

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	57,008	232
eventDate	19,561	0
maximumDepthInMeters	11,135	6,912
minimumDepthInMeters	9,929	1,393
occurrenceStatus	14,837	0
scientificNameID	3,720	170

Spatial issues

Records on land	0
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	15,634

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Archives of the Arctic Seas Zooplankton Published 2019-09-03	12,764
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	12,691
MICROBIS Database (version 1) - European data Published	8,053
Zooplankton Eastern Arctic Ocean Polarstern, 1995-1998 Published 2019-10-02	7,658
Shebaplankton_Falk3 Published 2023-01-18	7,230
Composition and distribution of the biomass of zooplankton in the central Arctic Basin 1975, 1976, 1977 Published 2019-08-26	2,182
DFO Pacific IOS zooplankton database - Zooplankton samples collected during cruises to the Canadian Arctic, 2006-2009 Published 2022-03-30	1,776
PANGAEA - Data from quaternary environment of the Eurasian North (QUEEN) Published 2025-03-20	928
DFO Pacific IOS zooplankton database - Zooplankton samples collected during cruises to the Canadian Arctic between 1987 and 2000 Published 2022-03-30	675
Oceanexploration2002_vers4 Published 2019-08-26	666

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
Metridia longa (Lubbock, 1854) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	2,685
Calanus hyperboreus Krøyer, 1838 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	2,490
Microcalanus pygmaeus (Sars G.O., 1900) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	2,237
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	2,234
Oithona similis Claus, 1866 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1,880
Ostracoda Latreille, 1802 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Ostracoda	1,594
Chaetognatha Phylum Chaetognatha	1,576
Bacteria	1,551
Calanus glacialis Jaschnov, 1955 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1,489
Radiozoa Phylum Radiozoa	1,138

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Rissa tridactyla (Linnaeus, 1758) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	2	2014
Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	2013
Numenius phaeopus (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	2	2010
Boreogadus saida (Lepechin, 1774) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2009
Lycodes adolfi Nielsen & Fosså, 1993 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2009
Lycodes seminudus Reinhardt, 1837 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2009
Pontaster tenuispinus (Düben & Koren, 1846) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea	1	2005
Hymenaster pellucidus Thomson, 1873 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea	1	2005
Ophiolimna bairdi (Lyman, 1883) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	2	2005
Pusa hispida (Schreber, 1775) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	96	2005

Data providers

Name	Records
University of Alaska Fairbanks - School of Fisheries and Oceans	31,109
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	12,726
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	12,691
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	8,505
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	8,053
Institute of Ocean Science (DFO – IOS), Fisheries and Oceans Canada	2,451
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	1,472
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research	1,228
Duke University	234
LGL Limited - Environmental Research Associates	214