Jamaica

Statistics

Occurrence records 16,779
Species level 15,409
Species 1,855
Taxa 2,161
Datasets 90
Time range 1807 - 2018

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 16,070
No WoRMS match 1,594
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 97
No accepted name available 310

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 31,884 738
eventDate 6,213 0
maximumDepthInMeters 25,498 0
minimumDepthInMeters 24,524 0
occurrenceStatus 27,276 0
scientificName 137 0
scientificNameID 18,674 91

Spatial issues

Records on land 19,369
More than 20 km from shore 1,406
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 416

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Orbicella annularis (Ellis & Solander, 1786) EN
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia
792
Porites astreoides Lamarck, 1816
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia
665
Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus, 1766) CR
Phylum Chordata
644
Sparisoma aurofrenatum (Valenciennes, 1840)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
464
Scarus iseri (Bloch, 1789)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
461
Agaricia agaricites (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia
379
Acanthurus coeruleus Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
363
Acanthurus bahianus Castelnau, 1855
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
354
Porites porites (Pallas, 1766)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia
341
Sparisoma viride (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
305

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Brachidontes modiolus (Linnaeus, 1767)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
1 2017
Gari circe (Mörch, 1876)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
1 2017
Divaricella dentata (W. Wood, 1815)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
1 2017
Lamarcka imbricata (Bruguière, 1789)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
1 2017
Callyspongia (Cladochalina) plicifera (Lamarck, 1814)
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
5 2015
Aetobatus ocellatus (Kuhl, 1823) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
1 2015
Timarete caribous (Grube, 1859)
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
6 2015
Hypanus americanus (Hildebrand & Schroeder, 1928) NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
2 2015
Gymnura micrura (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
1 2014
Labroides dimidiatus (Valenciennes, 1839)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2014

Data providers

Name Records
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 8,691
Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, University of Miami 7,364
Universidad Simon Bolivar 4,101
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute 3,543
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 1,456
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 1,024
Duke University 960
InvertEBase 768
Sea Turtle Conservation Bonaire 694
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 641