Iran

Statistics

Occurrence records 37,566
Species level 15,050
Species 995
Taxa 1,452
Datasets 91
Time range 1766 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 16
No WoRMS match 266
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 2
No accepted name available 1,930

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 36,783 8
eventDate 615 0
maximumDepthInMeters 9,702 2
minimumDepthInMeters 3,335 2
occurrenceStatus 775 0
scientificName 17 0
scientificNameID 478 4

Spatial issues

Records on land 742
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 50

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Sagitta Quoy & Gaimard, 1827
Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea
2,903
Fiona Alder & Hancock, 1853
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
2,425
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
2,179
Oncaea Philippi, 1843
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
1,870
Oikopleura Mertens, 1830
Phylum Chordata > Class Appendicularia
1,431
Ostracoda Latreille, 1802
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Ostracoda
1,291
Decapoda Latreille, 1802
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
996
Polychaeta Grube, 1850
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
980
Corycaeus Dana, 1849
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
960
Paracalanus aculeatus Giesbrecht, 1888
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
875

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Leptochryseus kuwaitense (Jones & Clayton, 1983)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
8 2023
Balaenoptera edeni Anderson, 1878
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
1 2022
Nasima dotilliformis (Alcock, 1900)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
19 2022
Austruca sindensis (Alcock, 1900)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
17 2022
Aeginellopsis arabica Arimoto, 1970
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2021
Protogeton inflatus Mayer, 1903
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2021
Pilumnus persicus Fahimi, Zolgharnein, Keykhosravi & Naderloo, 2021
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2021
Eurycarcinus orientalis A. Milne-Edwards, 1867
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
21 2020
Metopograpsus messor (Forskål, 1775)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
29 2019
Metopograpsus thukuhar (Owen, 1839)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
10 2019

Data providers

Name Records
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington 27,262
U.S. Geological Survey HQ 27,262
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 6,348
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel 6,141
Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung 1,676
University of Tehran 1,062
Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science 554
Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences 541
Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum 541
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 414