Maldives - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Maldives

Statistics

Occurrence records	26,128
Species level	14,003
Species	2,935
Taxa	3,568
Datasets	119
Time range	1750 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	39
No WoRMS match	812
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	58
No accepted name available	973

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	25,482	13
eventDate	6,745	0
maximumDepthInMeters	13,659	0
minimumDepthInMeters	12,682	0
occurrenceStatus	8,709	0
scientificName	68	0
scientificNameID	3,399	90

Spatial issues

Records on land	859
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	157

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	10,264
Taxonomically comprehensive assessment of biodiversity of animal plankton throughout the world ocean Published	2,570
Ecoscope Observation Database Published 2025-03-20	1,624
IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS Published	1,110
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Published 2025-03-18	1,108
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	949
Diveboard - Scuba diving citizen science observations Published 2025-03-20	688
Queensland Museum Corals Published 2023-06-28	607
Hexacorallians of the world Published 2020-06-09	604
PANGAEA - Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Published 2025-03-20	585

Distribution

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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
Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,285
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	955
Fiona Alder & Hancock, 1853 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	775
Oncaea Philippi, 1843 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	590
Sagitta Quoy & Gaimard, 1827 Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea	511
Corycaeus Dana, 1849 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	340
Calocalanus pavo (Dana, 1849-1852) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	287
Calocalanus Giesbrecht, 1888 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	286
Ostracoda Latreille, 1802 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Ostracoda	280
Gastropoda Cuvier, 1795 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	224

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Filograna implexa Berkeley, 1835 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	2	2023
Acanthogorgia flabellum Hickson, 1905 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	4	2023
Subergorgia suberosa (Pallas, 1766) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	3	2023
Schizaster gibberulus L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1847 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Echinoidea	2	2023
Odontoglaja guamensis Rudman, 1978 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	2	2023
Goniobranchus setoensis (Baba, 1938) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	4	2023
Goniobranchus tritos (Yonow, 1994) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	4	2023
Melithaea rubrinodis (Gray, 1859) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	4	2023
Pteraeolidia semperi (Bergh, 1870) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	2	2023
Aplysia nigrocincta E. von Martens, 1880 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	3	2023

Data providers

Name	Records
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	10,268
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	10,268
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	4,792
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	3,858
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	2,570
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India	1,754
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement	1,624
CSIR - National Institute of Oceanography, Goa	1,189
National Chemical Laboratory; Information Division	1,110
InvertEBase	1,108