Joint Regime: Nigeria - Sao Tome and Principe - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Joint Regime: Nigeria - Sao Tome and Principe

Statistics

Occurrence records	524
Species level	467
Species	160
Taxa	181
Datasets	16
Time range	1849 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	0
No WoRMS match	45
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	2
No accepted name available	1

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	524	1
eventDate	43	0
maximumDepthInMeters	533	0
minimumDepthInMeters	73	0
occurrenceStatus	40	0
scientificName	6	0
scientificNameID	30	27

Spatial issues

Records on land	0
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	21

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
PANGAEA - Data from South Atlantic in the late Quaternary: reconstruction of budget and currents Published 2025-03-20	387
Bigood Published 2025-03-20	32
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	25
PANGAEA - Data from University Bremen Published 2025-03-20	22
PANGAEA - Data from Glacial Atlantic Mapping and Prediction (GLAMAP2000) Published 2025-03-20	14
Ecoscope Balbaya Database Published 2025-03-20	10
Historical distribution of whales shown by logbook records 1785-1913 Published 2023-02-08	9
Ecoscope Observation Database Published 2025-03-20	9
National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Fishes Collections Published	4
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	3

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
Hoeglundina elegans (d'Orbigny, 1826) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	10
Uvigerina peregrina Cushman, 1923 Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	10
Reophax bilocularis Flint, 1899 Phylum Foraminifera > Class Nodosariata	10
Reophax scorpiurus Montfort, 1808 Phylum Foraminifera > Class Nodosariata	10
Rhabdammina Sars in Carpenter, 1869 Phylum Foraminifera > Class Monothalamea	9
Pullenia bulloides (d'Orbigny, 1846) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	9
Epistominella exigua (Brady, 1884) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	9
Ammolagena clavata (Jones & Parker, 1860) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Nodosariata	9
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	9
Pseudobulimina chapmani (Heron-Allen & Earland, 1922) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	9

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Puffinus gravis (O'Reilly, 1818) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	1	2023
Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763 Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	1	2007
Auxis thazard (Lacepède, 1800) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2002
Euthynnus alletteratus (Rafinesque, 1810) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2002
Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	4	2002
Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2002
Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2002
Hoeglundina elegans (d'Orbigny, 1826) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	10	1998
Uvigerina peregrina Cushman, 1923 Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	10	1998
Reophax bilocularis Flint, 1899 Phylum Foraminifera > Class Nodosariata	10	1998

Data providers

Name	Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	465
University of Bremen Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences	387
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer, IFREMER, Centre de Brest	32
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	25
University of Bremen	22
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement	19
Duke University	11
WCS Canada	9
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	7
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	7