Walvis Ridge

Statistics

Occurrence records 18,056
Species level 16,388
Species 1,213
Taxa 1,526
Datasets 77
Time range 1849 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 40
No WoRMS match 2,299
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 39
No accepted name available 262

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 21,669 46
eventDate 535 0
maximumDepthInMeters 21,568 0
minimumDepthInMeters 7,792 0
occurrenceStatus 1,011 0
scientificName 31 0
scientificNameID 2,417 712

Spatial issues

Records on land 0
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 393

Distribution

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

Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Globorotalia truncatulinoides (d'Orbigny, 1839)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
347
Orbulina universa d'Orbigny, 1839
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
249
Contusotruncana contusa (Cushman, 1926)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
236
Globigerina bulloides d'Orbigny, 1826
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
234
Globigerinoides ruber (d'Orbigny, 1839)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
230
Globigerinita glutinata (Egger, 1893)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
217
Trilobatus sacculifer (Brady, 1877)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
210
Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (Ehrenberg, 1861)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
198
Globigerinella siphonifera (d'Orbigny, 1839)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
185
Umbilicosphaera sibogae (Weber Bosse) Gaarder, 1970
Phylum Haptophyta > Class Coccolithophyceae
184

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Grampus griseus (G. Cuvier, 1812)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
2 2019
Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
2 2019
Stenella longirostris (Gray, 1828)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
2 2019
Calonectris diomedea (Scopoli, 1769)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
2 2014
Bolinichthys photothorax (Parr, 1928)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2014
Procellaria aequinoctialis Linnaeus, 1758 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1 2014
Poromitra atlantica (Norman, 1929)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
3 2014
Pterodroma macroptera (Smith, 1840)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
5 2012
Mediaster bairdi (Verrill, 1882)
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea
3 2010
Halosauropsis macrochir (Günther, 1878)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
3 2010

Data providers

Name Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 14,596
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research 1,982
Centro Oceanográfico de Canarias - Instituto Español de Oceanografía 1,716
University of Bremen Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences 1,093
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure 1,072
University of Bremen 960
GEOPS Geosciences Paris-Sud, CNRS, Université de Paris Sud 845
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 456
Duke University 386
WCS Canada 294