Joint Regime: Japan - Korea - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Joint Regime: Japan - Korea

Statistics

Occurrence records	2,755
Species level	2,520
Species	473
Taxa	565
Datasets	38
Time range	1849 - 2022

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	2
No WoRMS match	136
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	6
No accepted name available	46

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	2,241	16
eventDate	1,183	0
maximumDepthInMeters	2,257	0
minimumDepthInMeters	2,386	0
occurrenceStatus	1,441	0
scientificName	78	0
scientificNameID	318	17

Spatial issues

Records on land	0
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	38

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	1,060
Loggerhead turtle movement off the coast of Taiwan Published 2021-04-24	540
Fish collection of National Museum of Nature and Science Published 2024-06-14	352
Asia-Pacific Dataset Published 2024-06-14	221
mabik_cr Published 2024-12-18	120
Global benthic biogeographical regions and macroecological drivers for ophiuroids [Data set] Published 2023-11-30	77
JODC Dataset Published 2024-06-14	67
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	51
Adult female loggerhead turtles around Japan 1999 Published 2021-04-24	39
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	39

Distribution

Disclaimer: EEZ boundaries based on Marine Regions (no endorsement).

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
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU Phylum Chordata	582
Larimichthys polyactis (Bleeker, 1877) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	71
Macroramphosus sagifue Jordan & Starks, 1902 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	58
Champsodon snyderi Franz, 1910 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	30
Neobythites sivicola (Jordan & Snyder, 1901) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	26
Chelidoperca hirundinacea (Valenciennes, 1831) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	25
Coelorinchus multispinulosus Katayama, 1942 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	25
Erisphex pottii (Steindachner, 1896) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	25
Triacanthodes anomalus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	24
Hoplichthys gilberti Jordan & Richardson, 1908 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	24

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Clausocalanus furcatus (Brady, 1883) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	2	2019
Acrocalanus longicornis Giesbrecht, 1888 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2019
Calocalanus plumulosus (Claus, 1863) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2019
Acrocalanus gracilis Giesbrecht, 1888 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2019
Clausocalanus farrani Sewell, 1929 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	2	2019
Akashiwo sanguinea (K.Hirasaka) Gert Hansen & Moestrup, 2000 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	1	2019
Parascolopsis inermis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	5	2019
Scolecithricella longispinosa Chen & Zhang, 1965 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	2	2019
Scolecithricella nicobarica (Sewell, 1929) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	2	2019
Numenius madagascariensis (Linnaeus, 1766) EN Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	13	2018

Data providers

Name	Records
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	1,060
Duke University	601
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Dole Street Office	540
NOAA Pacific Islands Science Center	540
National Museum of Nature and Science, Department of Zoology, Tsukuba	352
Frontier Research Center for Global Change/JAMSTEC	221
National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea	164
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	122
Norwegian Institute for Water Research	77
Japan Oceanographic Data Center	67