Guinea Bissau

Statistics

Occurrence records 17,656
Species level 16,831
Species 896
Taxa 1,047
Datasets 62
Time range 1849 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 21
No WoRMS match 3,126
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 0
No accepted name available 6

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 4,943 16,512
eventDate 1,795 0
maximumDepthInMeters 18,792 0
minimumDepthInMeters 18,481 0
occurrenceStatus 17,769 0
scientificName 2,959 0
scientificNameID 16,869 6

Spatial issues

Records on land 81
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 239

Top datasets

Distribution

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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
451
Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
319
Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
280
Auxis thazard (Lacepède, 1800)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
107
Antennarius striatus (Shaw, 1794)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
79
Euthynnus alletteratus (Rafinesque, 1810)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
75
Glaucostegus cemiculus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817) CR
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
63
Fontitrygon margarita (Günther, 1870) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
63
Auxis Cuvier, 1829
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
59
Diaphus dumerilii (Bleeker, 1856)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
55

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Puffinus gravis (O'Reilly, 1818)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
2 2023
Periophthalmus barbarus (Linnaeus, 1766)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2015
Pellonula leonensis Boulenger, 1916
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2015
Bathypterois phenax Parr, 1928
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2012
Sternoptyx diaphana Hermann, 1781
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2012
Stomias boa (Risso, 1810)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
3 2012
Coryphaenoides zaniophorus (Vaillant, 1888)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2012
Nezumia micronychodon Iwamoto, 1970
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2012
Nezumia africana (Iwamoto, 1970)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2012
Nezumia duodecim Iwamoto, 1970
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2012

Data providers

Name Records
Swedish Museum of Natural History 13,571
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement 1,284
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 644
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. 446
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 432
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Institute of Marine Sciences 202
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton 186
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 186
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute 185
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 181