Mozambique Channel

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Statistics

Occurrence records 309,939
Species level 218,779
Species 9,042
Taxa 12,440
Datasets 190
Time range 1706 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 1,317
No WoRMS match 6,365
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 279
No accepted name available 24,116

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 275,153 19,126
eventDate 126,972 0
maximumDepthInMeters 243,945 44
minimumDepthInMeters 242,574 0
occurrenceStatus 62,135 0
scientificName 2,518 0
scientificNameID 20,370 259

Spatial issues

Records on land 7,847
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 3,800

Top datasets

Dataset Records
Ecoscope tuna bycatch observer data
Published 2025-03-20 		66,385
UNESCO eDNA expedition in iSimangaliso Wetland Park (South Africa): April 2023
Published 2024-12-08 		35,949
Ecoscope tuna observer data
Published 2025-03-20 		31,418
World Ocean Database 2009
Published 2020-11-17 		29,265
Stationary visual census of commercial fishes in Mayotte (2023)
Published 2025-03-20 		15,413
Occurrence records of southern African aquatic biodiversity
Published 2024-05-09 		13,400
Observatoire Pelagis aerial surveys 2002-2021
Published 2022-01-20 		12,127
Ponta do Ouro zambezi shark tracking
Published 2024-08-30 		10,056
FishNet2 Marine Data
Published 2023-12-19 		7,836
Natal Museum - Mollusc Collection
Published 2020-12-02 		7,397

Distribution

Disclaimer: EEZ boundaries based on Marine Regions (no endorsement).

Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Biota incertae sedis
21,500
Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		12,668
Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		10,882
Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		9,666
Carcharhinus falciformis (Müller & Henle, 1839) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii 		9,080
Carcharhinus leucas (Valenciennes, 1839) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii 		8,612
Elagatis bipinnulata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		7,988
Canthidermis maculata (Bloch, 1786)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		5,821
Onychoprion Wagler, 1832
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves 		5,700
Lobotes surinamensis (Bloch, 1790)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		5,699

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Micromonas pusilla (Butcher) Manton & Parke, 1960
Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Mamiellophyceae 		191 2023
Phaeocystis globosa Scherffel, 1899
Phylum Haptophyta > Class Coccolithophyceae 		69 2023
Neoscorpis lithophilus (Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		81 2023
Scarus festivus Valenciennes, 1840
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		19 2023
Naso thynnoides (Cuvier, 1829)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		22 2023
Pelagomonas calceolata R.A.Andersen & G.Saunders, 1993
Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Pelagophyceae 		53 2023
Pseudo-nitzschia cuspidata (Hasle) Hasle, 1993
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		21 2023
Bellerochea polymorpha Hargraves & Guillard, 1974
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		78 2023
Pseudo-nitzschia sabit S.T. Teng, H.C. Lim, P.T. Lim & C.P. Leaw, 2015
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		27 2023
Chloroparvula pacifica Lopes dos Santos, Noël & Eikrem, 2017
Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Chloropicophyceae 		24 2023

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