ABNJ: North Pacific

Statistics

Occurrence records 668,849
Species level 335,472
Species 6,404
Taxa 10,861
Datasets 381
Time range 1837 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 215
No WoRMS match 18,980
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 6,425
No accepted name available 53,628

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 802,922 56,120
eventDate 28,821 0
maximumDepthInMeters 539,018 3,393
minimumDepthInMeters 471,954 3,623
occurrenceStatus 82,188 0
scientificName 651 0
scientificNameID 25,503 1,703

Spatial issues

Records on land 0
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 7,164

Top datasets

Dataset Records
NORIPMN12022 Env Template BIO
Published 2023-06-22
79,490
World Ocean Database 2009
Published 2020-11-17
77,294
FRA-PLANKTON DATASET
Published 2024-06-14
55,542
NMFS Turtle Tracking
Published 2021-04-24
37,188
NOAA Deep-Sea Coral Research and Technology Program
Published 2025-02-05
36,134
MICROBIS Database (version 1) - European data
Published
31,614
DFO Pacific IOS zooplankton database - Line P
Published 2022-03-29
30,681
Marine Microbes from RV Investigator voyage IN2016_V03, 170W, Pacific Ocean (2016)
Published 2022-08-09
30,675
PANGAEA - Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP)
Published 2025-03-20
25,500
FishNet2 Marine Data
Published 2023-12-19
20,930

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata
44,358
Monothalamea Haeckel, 1862 (as emended by Pawlowski et al., 2013)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Monothalamea
29,226
Phoebastria immutabilis (Rothschild, 1893) NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
17,660
Animalia
16,446
Phoebastria nigripes (Audubon, 1849) NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
8,910
Alphaproteobacteria
Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Alphaproteobacteria
7,605
Dinophyceae Fritsch, 1927
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
6,320
Bacteria
5,783
Polychaeta Grube, 1850
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
5,249
Mirounga angustirostris (Gill, 1866)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
5,247

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Odontaspis ferox (Risso, 1810) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
2 2024
Simenchelys parasitica Gill, 1879
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2024
Etelis coruscans Valenciennes, 1862
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2024
Plesiobatis daviesi (Wallace, 1967)
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
1 2024
Meadia abyssalis (Kamohara, 1938)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2024
Hydrolagus purpurescens (Gilbert, 1905)
Phylum Chordata > Class Holocephali
1 2024
Conger erebennus (Jordan & Snyder, 1901)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2024
Randallichthys filamentosus (Fourmanoir, 1970)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2024
Gymnothorax ryukyuensis Hatooka, 2003
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2024
Plesionika grandis Doflein, 1902
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2024

Data providers

Name Records
International Seabed Authority 134,357
U.S. Geological Survey HQ 116,793
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington 113,428
Duke University 92,195
Nauru Ocean Resources Inc. 79,490
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 64,818
Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency 55,542
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 53,208
NOAA Pacific Islands Science Center 44,604
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Dole Street Office 37,888