Slopes of the Flemish Cap and Grand Bank

Statistics

Occurrence records 52,923
Species level 38,404
Species 551
Taxa 802
Datasets 52
Time range 1878 - 2022

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 0
No WoRMS match 176
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 125
No accepted name available 341

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 51,197 9
eventDate 330 0
maximumDepthInMeters 11,981 1
minimumDepthInMeters 11,400 1
occurrenceStatus 35,139 0
scientificName 31 0
scientificNameID 178 781

Spatial issues

Records on land 0
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 639

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Fulmarus glacialis (Linnaeus, 1761)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
2,314
Xiphias gladius Linnaeus, 1758 NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1,740
Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758) NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
1,586
Macrourus berglax Lacepède, 1801
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1,391
Reinhardtius hippoglossoides (Walbaum, 1792) NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1,363
Nezumia bairdii (Goode & Bean, 1877)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1,346
Puffinus gravis (O'Reilly, 1818)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1,341
Antimora rostrata (Günther, 1878)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1,186
Alle alle (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1,182
Synaphobranchus kaupii Johnson, 1862
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1,103

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Aeginura grimaldii Maas, 1904
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
1 2022
Chromatonema rubrum Fewkes, 1882
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
1 2022
Paralia sulcata (Ehrenberg) Cleve, 1873
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
1 2017
Rhizosolenia imbricata Brightwell, 1858
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
1 2017
Numenius phaeopus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1 2017
Coscinodiscus wailesii Gran & Angst, 1931
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
1 2016
Undinella oblonga Sars G.O., 1900
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
1 2015
Melanitta fusca (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1 2015
Pseudo-nitzschia seriata (Cleve) H.Peragallo, 1899
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
1 2015
Hansarsia megalops (G.O. Sars, 1883)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
3 2015