North-eastern Barents-Kara Sea - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

North-eastern Barents-Kara Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records	23,298
Species level	16,300
Species	919
Taxa	1,204
Datasets	58
Time range	1868 - 2019

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	0
No WoRMS match	630
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	113
No accepted name available	527

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	23,856	22
eventDate	6,966	0
maximumDepthInMeters	6,247	81
minimumDepthInMeters	1,556	15
occurrenceStatus	4,012	0
scientificNameID	1,062	638

Spatial issues

Records on land	93
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	8,556

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	6,842
Archives of the Arctic Seas Zooplankton Published 2019-09-03	3,639
Zooplankton Eastern Arctic Ocean Polarstern, 1995-1998 Published 2019-10-02	2,956
Benthic fauna around Franz Josef Land Published 2025-03-20	1,703
Structure and function of contemporary food webs on Arctic shelves: A panarctic comparison. The pelagic system of the Kara Sea- communities and components of carbon flow Published 2019-08-26	1,579
Arctic benthic invertebrate collection of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science Published 2019-10-01	1,461
MICROBIS Database (version 1) - European data Published	1,188
ZINRAS_Arctic_Benthos Published 2019-08-26	723
PANGAEA - Data from quaternary environment of the Eurasian North (QUEEN) Published 2025-03-20	686
Global benthic biogeographical regions and macroecological drivers for ophiuroids [Data set] Published 2023-11-30	565

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
Metridia longa (Lubbock, 1854) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	828
Calanus finmarchicus (Gunnerus, 1770) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	780
Pseudocalanus Boeck, 1873 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	636
Calanus glacialis Jaschnov, 1955 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	600
Oithona similis Claus, 1866 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	575
Calanus hyperboreus Krøyer, 1838 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	522
Dinophyceae Fritsch, 1927 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	404
Microcalanus pygmaeus (Sars G.O., 1900) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	295
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	276
Gymnodiniaceae Lankester, 1885 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	273

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Gaetanus curvicornis Sars G.O., 1905 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2013
Solmundella bitentaculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	2	2013
Rhopalonema velatum Gegenbaur, 1857 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	6	2013
Abylopsis tetragona (Otto, 1823) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	1	2013
Rhizosolenia imbricata Brightwell, 1858 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	1	2013
Proboscia alata (Brightwell) Sundström, 1986 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	2	2013
Rhizosolenia semispina Hensen, 1887 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	9	2013
Proboscia inermis (F.Castracane) R.W.Jordan & R.Ligowski, 1991 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	1	2013
Tripos horridus (Cleve) F.Gómez, 2013 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	1	2013
Tripos longipes (Bailey) F.Gómez, 2013 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	5	2013

Data providers

Name	Records
University of Alaska Fairbanks - School of Fisheries and Oceans	10,389
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	6,842
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	6,842
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	3,441
High North Research Centre for Climate and the Environment	1,703
Polar Environmental Centre Akvaplan-niva	1,703
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences	1,471
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	1,402
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	1,188
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research	687