Thailand - Dugong - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Thailand - Dugong

Statistics

Occurrence records	292
Species level	248
Species	186
Taxa	209
Datasets	19
Time range	1966 - 2016

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	1
No WoRMS match	3
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	0
No accepted name available	0

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	64	18
eventDate	14	0
maximumDepthInMeters	260	0
minimumDepthInMeters	278	0
occurrenceStatus	26	0
scientificName	2	0
scientificNameID	7	0

Spatial issues

Records on land	19
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	1

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Asia-Pacific Dataset Published 2024-06-14	153
Occurrence data of seagrasses in Southeast Asia extracted from literature Published 2024-06-14	54
Plankton&BenthosResearch Published 2024-06-14	29
Global benthic biogeographical regions and macroecological drivers for ophiuroids [Data set] Published 2023-11-30	16
DMNS Marine Invertebrate Collection (Arctos) Published 2023-10-01	10
Australian Museum Marine Invertebrate Collection Published 2023-06-28	5
Australian Museum Malacology Collection - Marine records Published 2022-06-08	4
National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Fishes Collections Published	3
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Malacology Collection - marine records Published 2023-06-28	2
Horseshoe crab distribution records from East America and Asia Published 2025-03-20	2

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
Halophila ovalis (R.Brown) J.D.Hooker, 1858 Phylum Tracheophyta > Class Magnoliopsida	12
Enhalus acoroides (Linnaeus f.) Royle, 1839 Phylum Tracheophyta > Class Magnoliopsida	9
Thalassia hemprichii (Ehrenberg) Ascherson, 1871 Phylum Tracheophyta > Class Magnoliopsida	8
Cymodocea rotundata Ascherson & Schweinfurth, 1870 Phylum Tracheophyta > Class Magnoliopsida	7
Oceana serrulata (R.Brown) Byng & Christenh. Phylum Tracheophyta > Class Magnoliopsida	7
Siphonariidae J. E. Gray, 1827 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	5
Cerapus Say, 1817 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	5
Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920 Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia	5
Halodule uninervis (Forsskål) Ascherson, 1882 Phylum Tracheophyta > Class Magnoliopsida	5
Muricidae Rafinesque, 1815 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	4

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Tachypleus gigas (O. F. Müller, 1785) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Merostomata	2	2011
Ophiactis savignyi (Müller & Troschel, 1842) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	3	2003
Macrophiothrix longipeda (Lamarck, 1816) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	2	2003
Ophiarachnella gorgonia (Müller & Troschel, 1842) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	1	2003
Ophionereis dubia (Müller & Troschel, 1842) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	2	2003
Ophiactis affinis Duncan, 1879 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	1	2003
Ophiothrix (Ophiothrix) ciliaris (Lamarck, 1816) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	1	2003
Ophiothrix (Ophiothrix) exigua Lyman, 1874 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	3	2003
Macrophiothrix martensi (Lyman, 1874) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	3	2003
Drupella cornus (Röding, 1798) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1	1995

Data providers

Name	Records
Frontier Research Center for Global Change/JAMSTEC	153
National Institute of Polar Research	54
University of Tokyo – Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute	54
The University of Tokyo, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute	54
Plankton Society of Japan	29
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	27
Norwegian Institute for Water Research	16
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	13
Berkeley Natural History Museums	10
Denver Museum of Nature & Science	10