Southern Coastal Areas of Shikoku and Honshu Islands - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Southern Coastal Areas of Shikoku and Honshu Islands

Statistics

Occurrence records	86,243
Species level	71,258
Species	2,936
Taxa	3,817
Datasets	78
Time range	1892 - 2022

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	21
No WoRMS match	871
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	110
No accepted name available	9,970

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	80,557	1
eventDate	5,499	0
maximumDepthInMeters	34,581	806
minimumDepthInMeters	34,874	783
occurrenceStatus	6,733	0
scientificName	170	0
scientificNameID	3,441	435

Spatial issues

Records on land	0
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	964

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
A Record of the Intertidal Malacofauna of Cape Bansho, Wakayama, Japan, from 1985 to 2010 Published 2024-06-14	45,450
Marine Biological Sample Database, JAMSTEC Published 2024-09-30	6,059
JODC Dataset Published 2024-06-14	5,922
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	5,464
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	4,593
The entire coast survey of Hatakejima Islands from 1983 Published 2024-06-14	4,455
The south coast survey of Hatakejima Islands from 1969 Published 2024-06-14	3,840
Data on coral species occurrences in Japan since 1929 Published 2024-05-31	1,883
Fish collection of National Museum of Nature and Science Published 2024-06-14	1,262
Survey data of seagrass beds on the Monitoring sites 1000 project, BDCJ Published 2024-06-14	1,214

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
Patelloida saccharina lanx (Reeve, 1855) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1,771
Saccostrea kegaki Torigoe & Inaba, 1981 Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia	1,742
Liolophura japonica (Lischke, 1873) Phylum Mollusca > Class Polyplacophora	1,537
Cellana toreuma (Reeve, 1854) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1,503
Monodonta confusa Tapparone Canefri, 1874 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1,397
Peasiella habei D. Reid & Mak, 1998 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1,331
Vignadula atrata (Lischke, 1871) Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia	1,330
Reishia clavigera (Küster, 1860) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1,268
Echinolittorina radiata (Souleyet, 1852) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1,252
Lottia kogamogai Sasaki & Okutani, 1994 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1,244

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Charistephane fugiens Chun, 1879 Phylum Ctenophora > Class Tentaculata	1	2022
Haliscera conica Vanhöffen, 1902 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	1	2022
Rhopalonema velatum Gegenbaur, 1857 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	1	2022
Cyclothone alba Brauer, 1906 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2022
Soestia zonaria (Pallas, 1774) Phylum Chordata > Class Thaliacea	1	2022
Halymenia dilatata Zanardini, 1851 Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae	1	2022
Lutraria rhynchaena Jonas, 1844 Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia	1	2022
Siphonosoma cumanense (Keferstein, 1867) Phylum Annelida	1	2022
Ocyropsis crystallina (Rang, 1827) Phylum Ctenophora > Class Tentaculata	1	2022
Gromia sphaerica Gooday, Bowser, Bett & Smith, 2000 Phylum Cercozoa > Class Gromiidea	2	2022

Data providers

Name	Records
Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University	53,954
JAMSTEC Tokyo Office	6,095
Japan Oceanographic Data Center	5,922
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	5,544
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	5,544
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	4,593
Ministry of the Environment	2,395
National Institute for Environmental Studies	1,883
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka	1,883
University of Tsukuba, Shimoda Marine Research Center	1,883