Redang Island Archipelago and Adjacent Area - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Redang Island Archipelago and Adjacent Area

Statistics

Occurrence records	1,889
Species level	1,730
Species	804
Taxa	849
Datasets	32
Time range	1899 - 2022

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	8
No WoRMS match	10
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	0
No accepted name available	1

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	772	19
eventDate	415	0
maximumDepthInMeters	817	0
minimumDepthInMeters	797	0
occurrenceStatus	561	0
scientificName	26	0
scientificNameID	44	2

Spatial issues

Records on land	194
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	109

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Fish Collection (2009, 2018 & 2019) (Kemaman & LKIM Kuantan) from the South China Sea Repository and Reference Centre (RRC), Institute of Oceanography and Environment (INOS), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) Published 2024-09-11	514
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	387
Cnidarian Collection from the South China Sea Repository and Reference Centre (RRC), Institute of Oceanography and Environment (INOS), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) Published 2024-04-16	211
Asia-Pacific Dataset Published 2024-06-14	161
Diveboard - Scuba diving citizen science observations Published 2025-03-20	146
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	128
Mollusca Collections from the South China Sea Repository and Reference Centre (RRC), Institute of Oceanography and Environment (INOS), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) Published 2023-08-23	82
Queensland Museum Corals Published 2023-06-28	69
Echinoderm Collection from the South China Sea Repository and Reference Centre (RRC), Institute of Oceanography and Environment (INOS), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) Published 2024-04-16	39
Satellite tracked green turtles in the South China Sea 1993-1994 Published 2021-04-24	19

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
Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) EN Phylum Chordata	23
Helcogramma McCulloch & Waite, 1918 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	16
Acropora Oken, 1815 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	14
Acropora muricata (Linnaeus, 1758) EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	14
Enneapterygius Rüppell, 1835 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	13
Thalassoma lunare (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	13
Pomacanthus annularis (Bloch, 1787) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	13
Taeniamia kagoshimana (Döderlein, 1883) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	13
Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus, 1758) EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	12
Arothron stellatus (Anonymous, 1798) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	12

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Lutjanus russellii (Bleeker, 1849) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2022
Rhizoprionodon acutus (Rüppell, 1837) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	2	2019
Elagatis bipinnulata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2019
Seriola dumerili (Risso, 1810) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2019
Pelates quadrilineatus (Bloch, 1790) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2019
Lethrinus variegatus Valenciennes, 1830 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2019
Pterocaesio digramma (Bleeker, 1864) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2019
Amblygaster sirm (Walbaum, 1792) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2019
Plotosus lineatus (Thunberg, 1787) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2019
Equulites laterofenestra (Sparks & Chakrabarty, 2007) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	4	2019

Data providers

Name	Records
South China Sea Repository and Reference Centre, Institute of Oceanography and Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu	666
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	387
South China Sea Repository and Reference Centre, INOS, UMT	211
South China Sea Repository and Reference Centre, Institute of Oceanography and Environment,	211
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	163
Frontier Research Center for Global Change/JAMSTEC	161
Diveboard	146
Datafable	146
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	130
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	128