White Shark Cafe / Shark Offshore Feeding Area - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

White Shark Cafe / Shark Offshore Feeding Area

Statistics

Occurrence records	126
Species level	109
Species	45
Taxa	55
Datasets	11
Time range	1849 - 2012

Data quality

Dropped records

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

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	0
No accepted name available	0

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	80	17
eventDate	56	0
maximumDepthInMeters	107	0
minimumDepthInMeters	122	0
occurrenceStatus	79	0
scientificName	4	0
scientificNameID	7	0

Spatial issues

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

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	52
NMFS Turtle Tracking Published 2021-04-24	17
TOPP Summary of SSM-derived Telemetry Published 2021-04-28	17
National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Fishes Collections Published	15
Pacific Turtle Tracks: Grupo Tortuguero (aggregated per 1-degree cell) Published 2022-05-02	6
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	6
Tern Island Albatrosses - 1999 Published 2021-04-24	5
Historical distribution of whales shown by logbook records 1785-1913 Published 2023-02-08	4
CAS Ichthyology (ICH) Published 2025-03-17	2
UWFC Ichthyology Collection Published 2019-03-15	1

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
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU Phylum Chordata	23
Dermochelys coriacea (Vandelli, 1761) VU Phylum Chordata	16
Valenciennellus tripunctulatus (Esmark, 1871) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	6
Phoebastria nigripes (Audubon, 1849) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	5
Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 VU Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	4
Myctophidae Gill, 1893 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	3
Cyclothone alba Brauer, 1906 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	3
Cyclothone pseudopallida Mukhacheva, 1964 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	3
Ranzania laevis (Pennant, 1776) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	3
Paralepididae Bonaparte, 1835 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Puffinus bulleri Salvin, 1888 Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	1	2012
Phoebastria immutabilis (Rothschild, 1893) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	1	2006
Dermochelys coriacea (Vandelli, 1761) VU Phylum Chordata	16	2004
Phoebastria nigripes (Audubon, 1849) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	5	1999
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU Phylum Chordata	23	1996
Ranzania laevis (Pennant, 1776) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	1972
Scopelengys clarkei Butler & Ahlstrom, 1976 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	1972
Cyclothone alba Brauer, 1906 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	1967
Cyclothone pseudopallida Mukhacheva, 1964 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	1967
Valenciennellus tripunctulatus (Esmark, 1871) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	1967

Data providers

Name	Records
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	52
Duke University	49
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	21
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	21
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Dole Street Office	17
NOAA Pacific Islands Science Center	17
Stanford University	17
SEATURTLE.ORG	6
Grupo Tortuguero Tracking Project	6
Wake Forest University	5