Pemba Bay - Mtwara (part of the Mozambique Channel)

Statistics

Occurrence records 4,443
Species level 3,803
Species 1,139
Taxa 1,165
Datasets 34
Time range 1849 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 2
No WoRMS match 145
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 5
No accepted name available 52

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 3,972 202
eventDate 956 0
maximumDepthInMeters 3,582 0
minimumDepthInMeters 3,641 0
occurrenceStatus 1,318 0
scientificName 141 0
scientificNameID 246 0

Spatial issues

Records on land 173
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 17

Top datasets

Dataset Records
Occurrence records of southern African aquatic biodiversity
Published 2024-05-09
1,335
Cordio East Africa Reef Building Corals 2014
Published 2017-01-13
1,107
World Ocean Database 2009
Published 2020-11-17
689
Ecoscope tuna bycatch observer data
Published 2025-03-20
336
Australian Museum Malacology Collection - Marine records
Published 2022-06-08
221
Opportunistic marine mammal sightings near Pemba, Mozambique
Published 2021-04-24
202
Happywhale - Humpback whale in Indian Ocean
Published 2025-03-17
140
FishNet2 Marine Data
Published 2023-12-19
62
Ecoscope Observation Database
Published 2025-03-20
55
Ecoscope tuna observer data
Published 2025-03-20
48

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
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
186
Tursiops aduncus (Ehrenberg, 1832 [1833]) NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
147
Sagitta Quoy & Gaimard, 1827
Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea
70
Fiona Alder & Hancock, 1853
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
60
Oikopleura Mertens, 1830
Phylum Chordata > Class Appendicularia
55
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
50
Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
49
Carcharhinus falciformis (Müller & Henle, 1839) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
45
Acanthocybium solandri (Cuvier, 1832)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
43
Decapterus macarellus (Cuvier, 1833)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
42

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Loxodon macrorhinus Müller & Henle, 1839 NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
7 2016
Rhynchobatus australiae Whitley, 1939 CR
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
1 2016
Maculabatis gerrardi (Gray, 1851) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
2 2016
Balistoides viridescens (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
3 2014
Acropora willisae Veron & Wallace, 1984 EN
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia
1 2014
Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
1 2013
Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Bleeker, 1856) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
4 2013
Epinephelus tukula Morgans, 1959
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
6 2013
Plectorhinchus plagiodesmus Fowler, 1935
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2013
Arothron nigropunctatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2013