Norway: Bouvet Island - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Norway: Bouvet Island

Statistics

Occurrence records	36,623
Species level	34,834
Species	514
Taxa	694
Datasets	69
Time range	1898 - 2022

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	10
No WoRMS match	728
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	38
No accepted name available	112

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	35,673	44
eventDate	1,128	0
maximumDepthInMeters	34,062	0
minimumDepthInMeters	30,721	1
occurrenceStatus	31,013	0
scientificName	30	0
scientificNameID	783	422

Spatial issues

Records on land	2,421
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	152

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
The Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking (Standardised) Data from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Published 2024-10-23	29,916
PANGAEA - Data from South Atlantic in the late Quaternary: reconstruction of budget and currents Published 2025-03-20	2,599
Southern Ocean Continuous Zooplankton Recorder (SO-CPR) Survey Published 2024-08-02	1,039
Myctobase, a circumpolar database of mesopelagic fishes for new insights into deep pelagic prey fields - data Published 2023-05-04	549
SOMBASE BIOCONSTRUCTORS Published 2024-08-05	429
Biological observations from the Discovery Investigations 1925-1952 Published 2019-03-15	250
PANGAEA - Data from the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Published 2025-03-20	146
PANGAEA - Data from paleoenvironmental reconstructions from marine sediments @ AWI Published 2025-03-20	140
Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Asteroidea database 2017 Published 2019-03-19	138
SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean - Porifera - Data Published 2020-01-19	130

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
Mirounga leonina (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	19,083
Arctocephalus gazella (Peters, 1875) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	7,474
Aptenodytes patagonicus Miller, 1778 Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	2,005
Phoebetria palpebrata (Forster, 1785) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	1,122
Bathylagus antarcticus Günther, 1878 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	236
Porifera Grant, 1836 Phylum Porifera	206
Diomedea exulans Linnaeus, 1758 VU Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	175
Oithona similis Claus, 1866 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	162
Calanoida Sars G.O., 1903 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	156
Electrona antarctica (Günther, 1878) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	112

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	3	2022
Sphaerotylus antarcticus Kirkpatrick, 1907 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	1	2017
Psalidaster mordax Fisher, 1940 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea	1	2017
Ophiuroglypha lymani (Ljungman, 1871) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	1	2011
Atyloella tribinicuspidata Rauschert, 2006 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2011
Amphiura (Amphiura) lymani Studer, 1885 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	1	2011
Ophiomastus meridionalis (Lyman, 1879) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	1	2011
Aptenodytes patagonicus Miller, 1778 Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	2,005	2008
Protomyctophum tenisoni (Norman, 1930) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	3	2008
Notolepis coatsorum Dollo, 1908 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	4	2008

Data providers

Name	Records
British Antarctic Survey	31,297
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen	31,088
Australian Antarctic Division	31,066
Université Libre de Bruxelles	30,637
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania	30,492
Alfred-Wegener-Institut (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung)	30,466
National Institute for Water & Atmospheric Research	30,166
Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre	29,989
Unviersité Libre de Bruxelles — Laboratoire de Biologie Marine	29,922
Oregon State University, Hatfield Marine Science Center	29,916