ABNJ: North Atlantic

Statistics

Occurrence records 1,547,701
Species level 997,269
Species 9,919
Taxa 14,297
Datasets 428
Time range 1753 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 1,157
No WoRMS match 73,031
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 6,293

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 21,836
No accepted name available 67,450

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 1,406,880 11,328
eventDate 146,853 0
maximumDepthInMeters 553,664 648
minimumDepthInMeters 368,114 652
occurrenceStatus 390,409 0
scientificName 2,492 0
scientificNameID 135,827 10,440

Spatial issues

Records on land 0
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 4,963

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Amperima rosea (E. Perrier, 1886)
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea
74,070
Xiphias gladius Linnaeus, 1758 NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
38,884
Euphausiacea Dana, 1852
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
36,353
Calanus finmarchicus (Gunnerus, 1770)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
34,393
Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
25,760
Hyperiidea H. Milne Edwards, 1830
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
23,034
Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
22,381
Calanus Leach, 1816
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
20,013
Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
17,723
Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758) NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
16,640

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Prokaryotic dsDNA virus sp.
Phylum DNA Viruses
1 2023
Dyspanopeus sayi (Smith, 1869)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2022
Mobula tarapacana (Philippi, 1892) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
1 2021
Mesoplodon mirus True, 1913
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
1 2021
Nansenia boreacrassicauda Poulsen, 2015
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2021
Lepechinella naces Lörz & Engel <i>in</i> Brandt, Chen, Engel, Esquete, Horton, Jażdżewska, Johannsen, Kaiser, Kihara, Knauber, Kniesz, Landschoff, Lörz, Machado, Martínez-Muñoz, Riehl, Serpell-Stevens, Sigwart, Tandberg, Tato, Tsuda, Vončina, Watanabe, Wenz & Williams, 202
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2021
Todaropsis eblanae (Ball, 1841)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda
12 2020
Amathillopsis inkenae Lörz & Horton, 2021
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2020
Axinella infundibuliformis (Linnaeus, 1759)
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
1 2019
Phakellia ventilabrum (Linnaeus, 1767)
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
1 2019