Pakistan - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Pakistan

Statistics

Occurrence records	23,617
Species level	10,983
Species	1,083
Taxa	1,524
Datasets	84
Time range	1753 - 2022

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	17
No WoRMS match	581
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	15
No accepted name available	1,467

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	22,928	1
eventDate	4,770	0
maximumDepthInMeters	8,896	9
minimumDepthInMeters	6,319	9
occurrenceStatus	5,216	0
scientificName	72	0
scientificNameID	786	215

Spatial issues

Records on land	2,122
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	167

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	14,554
Taxonomically comprehensive assessment of biodiversity of animal plankton throughout the world ocean Published	2,209
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	1,750
PANGAEA - Data from various sources Published 2025-03-20	1,682
PANGAEA - data from Netherlands Indian Ocean Programme (NIOP) Published 2025-03-20	809
IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS Published	325
Ecoscope Observation Database Published 2025-03-20	262
National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Fishes Collections Published	172
Phytoplankton Occurrence Data from Northeastern Arabian Sea Published 2022-01-19	161
Australian Museum Malacology Collection - Marine records Published 2022-06-08	155

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
Fiona Alder & Hancock, 1853 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1,025
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1,008
Sagitta Quoy & Gaimard, 1827 Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea	733
Oikopleura Mertens, 1830 Phylum Chordata > Class Appendicularia	580
Oncaea Philippi, 1843 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	580
Polychaeta Grube, 1850 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	450
Ostracoda Latreille, 1802 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Ostracoda	422
Corycaeus Dana, 1849 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	410
Clausocalanus arcuicornis (Dana, 1849-1852) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	375
Microsetella rosea (Dana, 1847) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	360

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Ampelisca persicus Momtazi, 2020 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2022
Menaethius monoceros (Latreille, 1825) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2017
Eriphia smithii MacLeay, 1838 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2017
Encephaloides armstrongi Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2017
Calappa exanthematosa Alcock & Anderson, 1894 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2017
Portunus segnis (Forskål, 1775) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2017
Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) EN Phylum Chordata	74	2016
Chiroteuthis picteti Joubin, 1894 Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda	2	2016
Astronesthes indopacificus Parin & Borodulina, 1997 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2016
Abraliopsis lineata (E. S. Goodrich, 1896) Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda	2	2016

Data providers

Name	Records
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	14,563
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	14,563
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	2,936
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	2,827
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	2,209
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	1,750
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India	816
Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee	809
CSIR - National Institute of Oceanography, Goa	333
National Chemical Laboratory; Information Division	325