Iceland

Statistics

Occurrence records 166,926
Species level 109,927
Species 2,068
Taxa 2,573
Datasets 171
Time range 1753 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 59
No WoRMS match 1,827
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 379
No accepted name available 7,395

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 153,902 1,951
eventDate 9,740 0
maximumDepthInMeters 74,783 3
minimumDepthInMeters 64,602 3
occurrenceStatus 6,565 0
scientificName 52 0
scientificNameID 2,473 727

Spatial issues

Records on land 3,824
More than 20 km from shore 1
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 370

Top datasets

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
10,549
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
9,336
Calanus finmarchicus (Gunnerus, 1770)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
8,794
Euphausiacea Dana, 1852
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
8,743
Calanus Leach, 1816
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
6,172
Gadus morhua Linnaeus, 1758 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
4,522
Tripos fusus (Ehrenberg) F.Gómez, 2013
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
4,521
Hyperiidea H. Milne Edwards, 1830
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
4,337
Thalassiosira P.T. Cleve, 1873 emend. Hasle, 1973
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
3,361
Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (Ehrenberg, 1861)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
3,333

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Lampanyctus ater Tåning, 1928
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
8 2021
Taaningichthys bathyphilus (Tåning, 1928)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
3 2021
Thalassobathia pelagica Cohen, 1963
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2021
Einara edentula (Alcock, 1892)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2021
Photostylus pycnopterus Beebe, 1933
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
3 2021
Melanolagus bericoides (Borodin, 1929)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
25 2021
Poromitra megalops (Lütken, 1878)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
18 2021
Sternoptyx diaphana Hermann, 1781
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
4 2021
Zaphotias pedaliotus (Goode & Bean, 1896)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
7 2021
Chiasmodon harteli Melo, 2009
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
6 2021

Data providers

Name Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 112,101
The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 83,934
Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science 80,492
University of Hull, Oceans Past Initiative 17,352
World Whaling History 16,086
The University of Dublin, Trinity College 16,086
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea 15,056
Duke University 12,735
Happywhale 9,084
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts Scientific research centre 7,284