Southern Red Sea Islands - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Southern Red Sea Islands

Statistics

Occurrence records	616
Species level	536
Species	268
Taxa	303
Datasets	33
Time range	1766 - 2017

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	2
No WoRMS match	5
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	2
No accepted name available	0

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	465	26
eventDate	104	0
maximumDepthInMeters	263	4
minimumDepthInMeters	586	0
occurrenceStatus	448	0
scientificName	2	0
scientificNameID	52	0

Spatial issues

Records on land	99
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	17

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Fishes Collections Published	338
Gulf Green Turtle Project 2016-2019 Published 2023-01-30	61
Australian Museum Malacology Collection - Marine records Published 2022-06-08	39
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	26
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Published 2025-03-18	17
Red Sea Cetacean Review - Strandings Published 2021-04-24	14
UF Invertebrate Zoology Published 2024-02-12	14
Red Sea Cetacean Review - Sightings Published 2021-04-24	12
A Biotic Database of Indo-Pacific Marine Mollusks Published 2018-11-12	11
Type locality distributions from the World Register of Marine Species Published 2025-03-20	11

Distribution

Disclaimer: EEZ boundaries based on Marine Regions (no endorsement).

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	63
Sousa chinensis (Osbeck, 1765) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	10
Cypraea pantherina [Lightfoot], 1786 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	8
Scaridae Rafinesque, 1810 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	6
Tursiops Gervais, 1855 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	6
Uropterygius concolor Rüppell, 1838 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	6
Ecsenius frontalis (Valenciennes, 1836) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	6
Scolopsis ghanam (Forsskål, 1775) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	5
Apogon coccineus Rüppell, 1838 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	5
Carangoides bajad (Forsskål, 1775) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	5

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus, 1766) CR Phylum Chordata	1	2010
Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) EN Phylum Chordata	63	2008
Balaenoptera edeni Anderson, 1878 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	3	2007
Carassius carassius (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2007
Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2007
Delphinus capensis Gray, 1828 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	4	1995
Siphamia goreni Gon & Allen, 2012 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	1995
Stenella longirostris (Gray, 1828) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	1994
Sousa chinensis (Osbeck, 1765) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	10	1993
Dentalium reevei P. Fischer, 1871 Phylum Mollusca > Class Scaphopoda	1	1989

Data providers

Name	Records
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	365
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	344
Duke University	90
Marine Research Foundation	61
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	55
Australian Museum	44
Tethys Research Institute	26
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	26
InvertEBase	18
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia	17