Ogasawara Islands - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Ogasawara Islands

Statistics

Occurrence records	3,328
Species level	2,586
Species	547
Taxa	706
Datasets	22
Time range	1849 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	60
No WoRMS match	47
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	0
No accepted name available	14

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	1,393	0
eventDate	858	0
maximumDepthInMeters	3,234	0
minimumDepthInMeters	3,304	0
occurrenceStatus	1,187	0
scientificName	17	0
scientificNameID	179	16

Spatial issues

Records on land	0
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	68

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Data on coral species occurrences in Japan since 1929 Published 2024-05-31	1,591
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	573
Happywhale - Humpback whale in North Pacific Ocean Published 2025-03-17	411
NaGISA Project Published 2018-03-21	231
Hexacorallians of the world Published 2020-06-09	156
Fish collection of National Museum of Nature and Science Published 2024-06-14	142
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	56
Global benthic biogeographical regions and macroecological drivers for ophiuroids [Data set] Published 2023-11-30	40
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Published 2025-03-18	36
Organisms observed during the Shipboard Oceanographic Laboratory 3, Department of Marine Biology, Tokai University Published 2024-05-31	36

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	411
Acropora Oken, 1815 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	78
Ostorhinchus properuptus (Whitley, 1964) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	58
Montipora Blainville, 1830 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	48
Rhabdamia Weber, 1909 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	47
Platygyra Ehrenberg, 1834 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	42
Pempheris xanthoptera Tominaga, 1963 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	36
Dipsastraea Blainville, 1830 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	35
Dipsastraea speciosa (Dana, 1846) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	34
Platygyra lamellina (Ehrenberg, 1834) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	33

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Aoroides macrops Ariyama & Kawabe, 2022 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2020
Stenella longirostris (Gray, 1828) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	2016
Acropora microphthalma (Verrill, 1869) EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1	2016
Montipora peltiformis Bernard, 1897 EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	8	2016
Sula leucogaster (Boddaert, 1783) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	15	2016
Ophiobrachion hamispinum Murakami, 1944 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	1	2016
Tursiops aduncus (Ehrenberg, 1832 [1833]) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	2016
Montipora floweri Wells, 1954 EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	5	2016
Montipora vietnamensis Veron, 2000 EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	9	2016
Montipora conicula Wells, 1954 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	2	2016

Data providers

Name	Records
National Institute for Environmental Studies	1,591
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka	1,591
University of Tsukuba, Shimoda Marine Research Center	1,591
Nanki‐Kumano Geopark Center	1,591
National Institute for Environmental Studies	1,591
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	573
Duke University	412
Happywhale	411
Universidad Simon Bolivar	387
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	218