Ryukyu Trench

Statistics

Occurrence records 741
Species level 361
Species 141
Taxa 291
Datasets 20
Time range 1959 - 2022

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 1
No WoRMS match 36
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 0
No accepted name available 17

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 728 1
eventDate 103 0
maximumDepthInMeters 691 0
minimumDepthInMeters 478 0
occurrenceStatus 173 0
scientificName 1 0
scientificNameID 184 19

Spatial issues

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

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
Congridae Kaup, 1856
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
18
Myctophidae Gill, 1893
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
18
Pisces
Phylum Chordata
17
Vinciguerria Jordan & Evermann, 1896
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
13
Vinciguerria nimbaria (Jordan & Williams, 1895)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
13
Melanostomiinae Parr, 1927
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
12
Gonostoma Rafinesque, 1810
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
11
Paralepididae Bonaparte, 1835
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
9
Labridae Cuvier, 1816
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
9
Pollichthys mauli (Poll, 1953)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
9

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Acanthephyra purpurea A. Milne-Edwards, 1881
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2022
Numenius madagascariensis (Linnaeus, 1766) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
7 2019
Calidris ruficollis (Pallas, 1776) NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1 2016
Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) EN
Phylum Chordata
1 2011
Asteroporpa (Astrohelix) muricatopatella Okanishi & Fujita, 2011
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea
1 2010
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata
7 2007
Diplophos taenia Günther, 1873
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 1986
Vinciguerria attenuata (Cocco, 1838)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 1986
Valenciennellus tripunctulatus (Esmark, 1871)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 1986
Hoplolatilus fronticinctus (Günther, 1887)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 1986

Data providers

Name Records
Frontier Research Center for Global Change/JAMSTEC 467
Swedish Museum of Natural History 161
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 48
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel 46
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure 41
University of Queensland 31
Duke University 8
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Dole Street Office 7
NOAA Pacific Islands Science Center 7
School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland 7