New Zealand: Tokelau - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

New Zealand: Tokelau

Statistics

Occurrence records	163,058
Species level	2,365
Species	234
Taxa	624
Datasets	26
Time range	1849 - 2017

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	0
No WoRMS match	23,202
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	2,404
No accepted name available	85

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	177	3
eventDate	159	0
maximumDepthInMeters	231	14
minimumDepthInMeters	240	0
occurrenceStatus	198	0
scientificName	2	0
scientificNameID	27,542	9

Spatial issues

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

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Marine Microbes from RV Investigator voyage IN2016_V03, 170W, Pacific Ocean (2016) Published 2022-08-09	161,940
NOAA Deep-Sea Coral Research and Technology Program Published 2025-02-05	839
Diversity of the Indo-Pacific (DIPnet) Published	75
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	70
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	26
Personal library collection of Martin Angel of published and unpublished Halocyprid (Ostracoda) occurrences Published 2025-03-20	20
Historical distribution of whales shown by logbook records 1785-1913 Published 2023-02-08	15
National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Fishes Collections Published	15
Diving into the vertical dimension of elasmobranch movement ecology (2000-2019) Published 2022-10-10	10
Ocean Genome Legacy Collection Published 2022-08-15	9

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
Alphaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Alphaproteobacteria	35,311
Syndiniales Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	23,357
Bacteria	13,077
Thermoplasmata Phylum Euryarchaeota > Class Thermoplasmata	10,443
Nitrosopumilaceae Phylum Thaumarchaeota > Class Thaumarchaeota incertae sedis	8,727
Dinophyceae Fritsch, 1927 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	8,463
Cyanobacteria Stanier ex Cavalier-Smith, 2002 Phylum Cyanobacteria	6,681
Amoebophrya Koeppen, 1894 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	5,614
Pseudomonadales Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	4,504
Rhodospirillales Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Alphaproteobacteria	3,036

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Enallopsammia rostrata (Pourtalès, 1878) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	57	2017
Madrepora oculata Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	2	2017
Chrysogorgia geniculata (Wright & Studer, 1889) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	1	2017
Narella horrida (Versluys, 1906) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	66	2017
Polymyces wellsi Cairns, 1991 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1	2017
Narella alata Cairns & Bayer, 2008 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	4	2017
Victorgorgia alba (Nutting, 1908) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	28	2017
Paracalyptrophora hawaiiensis Cairns, 2009 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	3	2017
Pleurocorallium porcellanum (Pasternak, 1981) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	7	2017
Psychrobacter marincola Romanenko, Schumann, Rohde, Lysenko, Mikhailov & Stackebrandt, 2002 Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	221	2016

Data providers

Name	Records
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	161,965
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	161,944
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	848
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	839
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	839
Northern Gulf Institute (a NOAA Cooperative Institute)	839
Diversity of the Indo-Pacific Network	75
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	70
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	45
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	41