New England and Corner Rise Seamounts - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

New England and Corner Rise Seamounts

Statistics

Occurrence records	8,061
Species level	2,684
Species	398
Taxa	620
Datasets	59
Time range	1849 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	0
No WoRMS match	62
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	0
No accepted name available	5

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	1,663	851
eventDate	1,116	0
maximumDepthInMeters	1,440	61
minimumDepthInMeters	1,401	61
occurrenceStatus	1,225	0
scientificName	59	0
scientificNameID	70	88

Spatial issues

Records on land	0
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	53

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
NOAA Deep-Sea Coral Research and Technology Program Published 2025-02-05	5,355
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	902
Coral and sponge observations in deep sea canyons and on seamounts in the Northwest Atlantic Published 2021-06-29	658
NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) Fisheries Log Book System (FLS) Commercial Pelagic Logbook Data Published 2021-08-25	256
The CPR Survey Published 2025-03-20	147
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	115
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Seabirds Compendium Published 2021-08-27	87
Cold water corals Published 2025-03-20	79
PIROP Northwest Atlantic 1965-1992 Published 2021-04-24	60
Atlantic Reference Centre Museum of Canadian Atlantic Organisms - Invertebrates and Fishes Data Published 2021-04-16	48

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
Hemicorallium Gray, 1867 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	814
Demospongiae Sollas, 1885 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	801
Keratoisididae Gray, 1870 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	387
Farrea Bowerbank, 1862 Phylum Porifera > Class Hexactinellida	374
Suberites ficus (Johnston, 1842) Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	366
Phakellia Bowerbank, 1862 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	218
Plexauridae Gray, 1859 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	170
Stauropathes Opresko, 2002 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	162
Corallium Cuvier, 1798 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	158
Tetractinellida Marshall, 1876 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	158

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Candacia pachydactyla (Dana, 1849-1852) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	2	2016
Rhincalanus cornutus (Dana, 1849-1852) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2016
Euchaeta marina (Prestandrea, 1833) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2016
Pleuromamma borealis Dahl F., 1893 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2016
Scolecithrix danae (Lubbock, 1856) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	3	2016
Temora turbinata (Dana, 1849-1852) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2016
Miracia efferata Dana, 1849-1852 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2016
Puffinus puffinus (Brünnich, 1764) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	1	2016
Candacia simplex (Giesbrecht, 1889) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	2	2016
Acartia (Acartia) danae Giesbrecht, 1889 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2016

Data providers

Name	Records
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	6,280
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	5,611
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	5,355
Northern Gulf Institute (a NOAA Cooperative Institute)	5,355
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	902
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, University of New Hampshire	658
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	265
Duke University	235
The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom	226
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	205