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North Korea

Statistics

Occurrence records	4,495
Species level	4,334
Species	422
Taxa	436
Datasets	40
Time range	1849 - 2021

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	30
No WoRMS match	101
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	22
No accepted name available	120

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	1,554	0
eventDate	374	0
maximumDepthInMeters	1,268	33
minimumDepthInMeters	1,262	45
occurrenceStatus	1,193	0
scientificName	5	0
scientificNameID	435	10

Spatial issues

Records on land	297
More than 20 km from shore	6
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	18

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Tracking of Far Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis) along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF) (2017-2021) Published 2022-12-08	2,939
KOBIS database Published 2018-11-12	680
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	286
mabik_cr Published 2024-12-18	198
JODC Dataset Published 2024-06-14	67
mabik_pi Published 2024-12-18	58
Historical distribution of whales shown by logbook records 1785-1913 Published 2023-02-08	31
Location of stopping sites from satellite tracking of 25 bar-tailed godwits (Limosa lapponica) in the East Asian–Australasian Flyway (EAAF). (2015-2017) Published 2022-12-08	21
NCOS1959_Crustacea Published 2024-11-10	19
NMFS Turtle Tracking Published 2021-04-24	18

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
Numenius madagascariensis (Linnaeus, 1766) EN Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	2,939
Leptochela gracilis Stimpson, 1860 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	104
Portunus trituberculatus (Miers, 1876) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	54
Animalia	48
Charybdis (Charybdis) japonica (A. Milne-Edwards, 1861) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	34
Eubalaena japonica (Lacépède, 1818) EN Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	31
Hemigrapsus sanguineus (De Haan, 1835) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	28
Nephtys Cuvier, 1817 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	24
Monoculodes koreanus Jo, 1990 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	23
Limosa lapponica (Linnaeus, 1758) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	21

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Doto japonica Odhner, 1936 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1	2021
Numenius madagascariensis (Linnaeus, 1766) EN Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	2,939	2018
Neopyropia retorta (S.M.Kim, H.G.Choi & H.S.Kim) L.-E.Yang & J.Brodie, 2020 Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Bangiophyceae	2	2017
Platycephalus indicus (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	3	2016
Lagocephalus lagocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2016
Calidris ruficollis (Pallas, 1776) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	4	2016
Conger myriaster (Brevoort, 1856) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	4	2016
Chirolophis wui (Wang & Wang, 1935) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	11	2016
Sebastes schlegelii Hilgendorf, 1880 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	9	2016
Limosa lapponica (Linnaeus, 1758) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	21	2015

Data providers

Name	Records
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	2,975
School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland	2,939
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	730
Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute	680
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	286
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	286
National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea	260
Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao	96
Japan Oceanographic Data Center	67
ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity	59