Qeshm Island and Adjacent Marine and Coastal Areas - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Qeshm Island and Adjacent Marine and Coastal Areas

Statistics

Occurrence records	917
Species level	628
Species	235
Taxa	319
Datasets	29
Time range	1937 - 2022

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	0
No WoRMS match	16
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	0
No accepted name available	1

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	874	0
eventDate	48	0
maximumDepthInMeters	896	0
minimumDepthInMeters	429	0
occurrenceStatus	48	0
scientificNameID	27	0

Spatial issues

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

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
PANGAEA - Data from Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel Published 2025-03-20	441
Distribution dataset of brachyuran crab species in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman (2017-2023) Published 2024-05-27	182
Cnidarian of the Iranian parts of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman Published 2020-06-14	160
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	34
The Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman Amphipoda Published 2024-07-10	23
IndOBIS Dataset (93630-103790) Published 2022-01-19	11
PANGAEA - Data from various sources Published 2025-03-20	9
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Ichthyology Collection - Marine records Published 2023-06-28	9
iran-marine-ray-finnedfishes-1963-70 Published 2020-06-15	8
National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Fishes Collections Published	8

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
Miliolinae Ehrenberg, 1839 Phylum Foraminifera > Class Tubothalamea	18
Riminopsis asterizans (Fichtel & Moll, 1798) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	18
Ammonia Brünnich, 1771 Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	17
Asterorotalia dentata (Parker & Jones, 1865) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	17
Bolivina striatula Cushman, 1922 Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	16
Propontocypris Sylvester-Bradley, 1947 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Ostracoda	15
Textularia Defrance, 1824 Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	14
Nonionella opima Cushman, 1947 Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	14
Elphidium advena (Cushman, 1922) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	14
Fursenkoina punctata (d'Orbigny, 1839) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	13

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Nasima dotilliformis (Alcock, 1900) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	3	2022
Austruca iranica (Pretzmann, 1971) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	3	2022
Austruca sindensis (Alcock, 1900) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2022
Ampelisca lowryi Momtazi, 2020 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2021
Eurycarcinus orientalis A. Milne-Edwards, 1867 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	6	2020
Metopograpsus messor (Forskål, 1775) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	4	2019
Byblis lepta (Giles, 1890) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2019
Ampelisca persicus Momtazi, 2020 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2019
Ampelisca linearis Momtazi, 2020 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2	2019
Leptodius exaratus (H. Milne Edwards, 1834) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	7	2018

Data providers

Name	Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	457
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel	441
Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung	205
University of Tehran	182
Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science	160
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	34
Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences	23
Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum	23
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	15
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	13