Seabird Foraging Zone in the Southern Labrador Sea - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Seabird Foraging Zone in the Southern Labrador Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records	27,333
Species level	12,123
Species	268
Taxa	406
Datasets	36
Time range	1889 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	0
No WoRMS match	468
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	41
No accepted name available	1,703

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	26,311	42
eventDate	710	0
maximumDepthInMeters	3,658	0
minimumDepthInMeters	2,969	0
occurrenceStatus	740	0
scientificNameID	5	471

Spatial issues

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

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
The CPR Survey Published 2025-03-20	21,855
PIROP Northwest Atlantic 1965-1992 Published 2021-04-24	1,440
CWS-EC Eastern Canada Seabirds at Sea (ECSAS) Published 2020-10-27	1,416
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	1,140
PANGAEA - Data from paleoenvironmental reconstructions from marine sediments @ AWI Published 2025-03-20	638
BioChem: The Les Harris Northwest Atlantic 0-100m zooplankton collection Published 2021-04-16	488
DFO Pacific IOS zooplankton database - Zooplankton samples collected during cruises to the Canadian Arctic, 2006-2009 Published 2022-03-30	75
Bigood Published 2025-03-20	63
Atlantic Reference Centre Museum of Canadian Atlantic Organisms - Invertebrates and Fishes Data Published 2021-04-16	30
The fishes collection (IC) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris) Published	25

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
Calanus finmarchicus (Gunnerus, 1770) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	2,697
Euphausiacea Dana, 1852 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2,597
Hyperiidea H. Milne Edwards, 1830 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2,078
Calanus Leach, 1816 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1,853
Fulmarus glacialis (Linnaeus, 1761) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	1,213
Chaetognatha Phylum Chaetognatha	1,189
Thalassiosira P.T. Cleve, 1873 emend. Hasle, 1973 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	928
Phaeoceros Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	887
Oithona Baird, 1843 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	791
Metridia lucens Boeck, 1865 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	700

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Meganyctiphanes norvegica (M. Sars, 1857) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2022
Aeginura grimaldii Maas, 1904 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	3	2022
Botrynema brucei Browne, 1908 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	1	2022
Pantachogon haeckeli Maas, 1893 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	2	2022
Boreomysis (Boreomysis) microps G. O. Sars, 1883 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2022
Rhincalanus cornutus (Dana, 1849-1852) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2017
Subeucalanus monachus (Giesbrecht, 1888) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2017
Scolecithrix danae (Lubbock, 1856) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2017
Lauderia pumila Castracane, 1886 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	1	2017
Undeuchaeta major Giesbrecht, 1888 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2016

Data providers

Name	Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	22,589
The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom	21,857
Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science	21,855
Canadian Wildlife Service - Quebec Region	2,856
Duke University	1,477
Duke University Marine Laboratory	1,440
Canadian Wildlife Service - Atlantic Region	1,416
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	1,148
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	1,148
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research	638