Australia: Heard and McDonald Islands

Statistics

Occurrence records 154,431
Species level 149,129
Species 872
Taxa 1,210
Datasets 116
Time range 1874 - 2020

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 20
No WoRMS match 915
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 18
No accepted name available 119

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 129,774 75
eventDate 3,956 0
maximumDepthInMeters 82,345 81
minimumDepthInMeters 77,705 81
occurrenceStatus 108,425 0
scientificName 81 0
scientificNameID 3,558 137

Spatial issues

Records on land 14,966
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 6,390

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Aptenodytes patagonicus Miller, 1778
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
26,640
Mirounga leonina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
24,217
Thalassarche melanophris (Temminck, 1828)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
20,098
Eudyptes chrysolophus (Brandt, 1837) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
19,096
Arctocephalus gazella (Peters, 1875)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
9,997
Champsocephalus gunnari Lönnberg, 1905
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
6,426
Macronectes giganteus (Gmelin, 1789)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
3,367
Channichthys rhinoceratus Richardson, 1844
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
3,001
Krefftichthys anderssoni (Lönnberg, 1905)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2,473
Diomedea exulans Linnaeus, 1758 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
2,304

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Thalassarche salvini (Rothschild, 1893) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1 2020
Poecillastra compressa (Bowerbank, 1866)
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
1 2019
Stylocordyla borealis (Lovén, 1868)
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
5 2019
Etmopterus viator Straube, 2011
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
9 2019
Pseudocnus dubiosus (Semper, 1868)
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea
1 2017
Psalidaster mordax Fisher, 1940
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea
2 2017
Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
8 2016
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
1 2016
Diomedea sanfordi Murphy, 1917 EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1 2016
Aptenodytes forsteri Gray, 1844 NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
662 2011