India: Andaman and Nicobar - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

India: Andaman and Nicobar

Statistics

Occurrence records	44,364
Species level	30,537
Species	7,792
Taxa	8,526
Datasets	131
Time range	1748 - 2019

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	734
No WoRMS match	4,155
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	163
No accepted name available	1,210

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	47,285	4
eventDate	14,602	0
maximumDepthInMeters	36,751	0
minimumDepthInMeters	35,357	0
occurrenceStatus	19,941	0
scientificName	21	0
scientificNameID	5,700	183

Spatial issues

Records on land	3,914
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	579

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS Published	9,478
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	7,985
Taxonomically comprehensive assessment of biodiversity of animal plankton throughout the world ocean Published	6,201
IndOBIS Dataset (93630-103790) Published 2022-01-19	1,371
Indian Ocean Marine Fauna Voucher Specimens Collections (CMLRE), Kochi, India Published 2023-10-25	1,223
PANGAEA - Data from Climate: Long-range investigation, mapping and prediction (CLIMAP) Published 2025-03-20	1,191
IndOBIS Dataset (28001-30000) Published 2022-01-04	718
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Published 2025-03-18	697
IndOBIS Dataset (32001-34000) Published 2022-01-06	694
IndOBIS Dataset (6001-8000) Published 2021-12-22	609

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
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	506
Pisces Phylum Chordata	436
Decapoda Latreille, 1802 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	393
Protozoa Owen, 1858	257
Echinodermata Klein, 1778 Phylum Echinodermata	257
Nemertea Phylum Nemertea	257
Thaliacea Van der Hoeven, 1850 Phylum Chordata > Class Thaliacea	211
Ostracoda Latreille, 1802 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Ostracoda	198
Cephalopoda Cuvier, 1795 Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda	195
Gastropoda Cuvier, 1795 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	192

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Lissocarcinus laevis Miers, 1886 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2	2019
Lupocyclus tugelae Barnard, 1950 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2	2019
Calappa gallus (Herbst, 1803) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2	2019
Synalpheus neomeris (De Man, 1897) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2	2019
Metapenaeopsis hilarula (De Man, 1911) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2	2019
Odontodactylus latirostris Borradaile, 1907 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2	2019
Lupocyclus strigosus Alcock, 1899 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	3	2019
Monomia petrea (Alcock, 1899) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	4	2019
Monomia rubromarginatus (Lanchester, 1900) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2	2019
Goniosupradens acutifrons (De Man, 1879) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2	2019

Data providers

Name	Records
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	16,248
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India	15,754
CSIR - National Institute of Oceanography, Goa	9,728
National Chemical Laboratory; Information Division	9,478
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	8,024
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	8,024
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	6,201
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	2,454
InvertEBase	697
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia	697