Protea Banks and sardine route - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Protea Banks and sardine route

Statistics

Occurrence records	4,157
Species level	2,722
Species	950
Taxa	1,346
Datasets	48
Time range	1900 - 2022

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	1
No WoRMS match	151
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	0
No accepted name available	18

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	4,134	19
eventDate	403	0
maximumDepthInMeters	1,449	0
minimumDepthInMeters	947	0
occurrenceStatus	3,123	0
scientificName	21	0
scientificNameID	259	14

Spatial issues

Records on land	0
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	111

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Natal Museum - Mollusc Collection Published 2020-12-02	1,887
Ocean Genome Legacy Collection Published 2022-08-15	488
iziko South African Museum - Crustacean Collection Published 2020-12-02	463
Occurrence records of southern African aquatic biodiversity Published 2024-05-09	351
iziko South African Museum - Fish Collection Published 2020-12-02	330
Biological Reference Collections ICM CSIC Published 2025-03-20	79
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	72
Taxonomically comprehensive assessment of biodiversity of animal plankton throughout the world ocean Published	67
The Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking (Standardised) Data from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Published 2024-10-23	62
Selmar Schonland Herbarium Marine Algae Collection Published 2017-01-26	46

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
Actinopterygii Phylum Chordata	455
Procellaria aequinoctialis Linnaeus, 1758 VU Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	56
Filodrillia Hedley, 1922 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	51
Lucifer Thompson, 1829 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	43
Emarginula natalensis Barnard, 1963 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	42
Lucifer typus H. Milne Edwards, 1837 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	40
Nassarius desmoulioides (G. B. Sowerby III, 1903) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	35
Anatoma agulhasensis (Thiele, 1925) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	28
Belzebub penicillifer (Hansen, 1919) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	26
Marginella Lamarck, 1799 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	25

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Halgerda dichromis Fahey & Gosliner, 1999 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1	2019
Halgerda meringuecitrea Tibiriçá, Pola & Cervera, 2018 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1	2019
Halgerda maaikeae Donohoo & Gosliner, 2023 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	2	2019
Carcharhinus brevipinna (Müller & Henle, 1839) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	1	2015
Galeocerdo cuvier (Péron & Lesueur, 1822) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	12	2013
Carcharhinus brachyurus (Günther, 1870) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	1	2013
Pteropsaron heemstrai Nelson, 1982 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2012
Xiphasia matsubarai Okada & Suzuki, 1952 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2011
Pterycombus petersii (Hilgendorf, 1878) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2011
Thalassarche melanophris (Temminck, 1828) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	1	2011

Data providers

Name	Records
CSIR / SADCO / AfrOBIS	2,721
KwaZulu-Natal Museum	1,887
iziko South African Museum	816
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	563
Northeastern University Marine Science Center	488
South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity	351
National Institute for Water & Atmospheric Research	113
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	91
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Institute of Marine Sciences	79
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	75