Oman - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Oman

Statistics

Occurrence records	67,729
Species level	35,844
Species	2,746
Taxa	4,491
Datasets	121
Time range	1813 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	21
No WoRMS match	2,318
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	341
No accepted name available	1,570

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	64,304	2,312
eventDate	8,410	0
maximumDepthInMeters	44,216	34
minimumDepthInMeters	27,690	2
occurrenceStatus	22,823	0
scientificName	47	0
scientificNameID	15,939	653

Spatial issues

Records on land	2,419
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	160

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	21,473
UF Invertebrate Zoology Published 2024-02-12	13,254
PANGAEA - Data from the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Published 2025-03-20	6,913
Taxonomically comprehensive assessment of biodiversity of animal plankton throughout the world ocean Published	3,792
PANGAEA - Data from Tübingen University Published 2025-03-20	3,298
PANGAEA - Data from various sources Published 2025-03-20	2,304
PANGAEA - data from Archive of Ocean Data (ArcOD) Published 2025-03-20	2,300
IFREMER/Kélonia satellite tracked late juvenile loggerhead sea turtles from Réunion Island 2008-2012 Published 2021-04-24	1,768
Discovery Collections Midwater Database Published 2021-12-14	1,499
PANGAEA - Data from Climate: Long-range investigation, mapping and prediction (CLIMAP) Published 2025-03-20	1,272

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
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU Phylum Chordata	1,803
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1,370
Sagitta Quoy & Gaimard, 1827 Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea	1,142
Biota	1,110
Fiona Alder & Hancock, 1853 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1,070
Animalia	1,053
Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) EN Phylum Chordata	995
Oncaea Philippi, 1843 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	845
Trilobatus sacculifer (Brady, 1877) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	807
Globigerinoides ruber (d'Orbigny, 1839) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	761

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Leptochryseus kuwaitense (Jones & Clayton, 1983) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2023
Psammocora profundacella Gardiner, 1898 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	18	2022
Leptoseris mycetoseroides Wells, 1954 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	12	2022
Pavona explanulata (Lamarck, 1816) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	13	2022
Etisus laevimanus Randall, 1840 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	12	2022
Sinularia brassica May, 1898 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	29	2022
Erronea onyx (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	10	2022
Pisidia dehaanii (Krauss, 1843) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	26	2022
Staurothyone rosacea (Semper, 1869) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea	11	2022
Phyllidiella pustulosa (Cuvier, 1804) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	18	2022

Data providers

Name	Records
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	21,489
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	21,489
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	18,729
Florida Museum of Natural History	13,254
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	4,584
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	3,940
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen	3,298
Duke University	3,017
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer, IFREMER, Centre de Brest	2,606
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton	1,499