The Upper Gulf of Thailand - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

The Upper Gulf of Thailand

Statistics

Occurrence records	3,123
Species level	2,246
Species	644
Taxa	867
Datasets	43
Time range	1858 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	4
No WoRMS match	251
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	2
No accepted name available	4

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	2,068	0
eventDate	1,097	0
maximumDepthInMeters	2,092	0
minimumDepthInMeters	1,864	0
occurrenceStatus	2,526	0
scientificName	165	0
scientificNameID	1,578	20

Spatial issues

Records on land	270
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	39

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
CAS Ichthyology (ICH) Published 2025-03-17	916
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	893
Asia-Pacific Dataset Published 2024-06-14	647
CAS Invertebrate Zoology (IZ) Published 2025-03-17	347
Queensland Museum Corals Published 2023-06-28	50
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Published 2025-03-18	24
Biological observations from the Dana Expedition Reports Published 2019-10-30	22
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	20
UF Invertebrate Zoology Published 2024-02-12	20
Queensland Museum Porifera Published 2023-06-28	19

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
Porifera Grant, 1836 Phylum Porifera	81
Halichoeres Rüppell, 1835 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	58
Hippocampus kuda Bleeker, 1852 VU Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	40
Leiognathidae Gill, 1893 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	31
Cephalopholis boenak (Bloch, 1790) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	27
Scolopsis taenioptera (Cuvier, 1830) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	27
Coilia lindmani Bleeker, 1857 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	27
Cephalopholis formosa (Shaw, 1812) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	23
Chaetodon octofasciatus Bloch, 1787 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	22
Dipsastraea favus (Forskål, 1775) VU Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	22

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Balaenoptera brydei Olsen, 1913 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	2024
Acropora millepora (Ehrenberg, 1834) EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1	2017
Acropora hyacinthus (Dana, 1846) EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1	2017
Acropora humilis (Dana, 1846) EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1	2017
Platygyra sinensis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1	2017
Ophiactis modesta Brock, 1888 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	1	2015
Astropecten javanicus Lutken, 1871 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea	2	2015
Salmacis sphaeroides (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Echinoidea	1	2015
Kempella mikado (Kemp & Chopra, 1921) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	3	2015
Glossogobius giuris (Hamilton, 1822) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2014

Data providers

Name	Records
California Academy of Sciences	1,263
California Academy of Sciences	916
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	893
Frontier Research Center for Global Change/JAMSTEC	647
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	125
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	105
Museum of Tropical Queensland	50
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	49
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	28
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	24