Zone de Production Equatoriale de Thons

Statistics

Occurrence records 119,908
Species level 108,846
Species 2,544
Taxa 3,258
Datasets 129
Time range 1849 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 240
No WoRMS match 9,934
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 920
No accepted name available 587

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 97,577 36,423
eventDate 62,699 0
maximumDepthInMeters 132,537 14
minimumDepthInMeters 115,755 14
occurrenceStatus 48,454 0
scientificName 6,720 0
scientificNameID 38,999 1,926

Spatial issues

Records on land 210
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 467

Top datasets

Dataset Records
Ecoscope tuna observer data
Published 2025-03-20
35,934
FishBase Database
Published 2023-03-23
29,481
Ecoscope tuna bycatch observer data
Published 2025-03-20
19,467
PANGAEA - Data from South Atlantic in the late Quaternary: reconstruction of budget and currents
Published 2025-03-20
5,029
MICROBIS Database (version 1) - European data
Published
4,806
PANGAEA - Data from the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
Published 2025-03-20
3,950
PANGAEA - Data from various sources
Published 2025-03-20
2,454
FishNet2 Marine Data
Published 2023-12-19
2,412
World Ocean Database 2009
Published 2020-11-17
1,874
Ecoscope Observation Database
Published 2025-03-20
1,572

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
Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
15,053
Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
9,776
Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
8,612
Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2,419
Acanthocybium solandri (Cuvier, 1832)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2,375
Auxis thazard (Lacepède, 1800)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2,278
Canthidermis maculata (Bloch, 1786)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2,273
Elagatis bipinnulata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1,893
Caranx crysos (Mitchill, 1815)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1,437
Lobotes surinamensis (Bloch, 1790)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1,233

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
5 2023
Sterna hirundo Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
19 2023
Puffinus griseus (Gmelin, 1789)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
2 2023
Puffinus puffinus (Brünnich, 1764)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1 2023
Butorides striata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1 2023
Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828 EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
1 2014
Tylosurus acus (Lacepède, 1803)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2012
Puffinus gravis (O'Reilly, 1818)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
6 2012
Cirrhitus atlanticus Osório, 1893
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2012
Christineconcha regab (Cosel & Olu, 2009)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
31 2011

Data providers

Name Records
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement 58,303
Swedish Museum of Natural History 29,481
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 17,308
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 7,116
University of Bremen Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences 5,029
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 4,806
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute 2,412
U.S. Geological Survey HQ 1,892
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington 1,880
Duke University 1,692