Palau

Statistics

Occurrence records 69,977
Species level 56,879
Species 4,051
Taxa 5,182
Datasets 87
Time range 1849 - 2021

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 2,685
No WoRMS match 3,325
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 184
No accepted name available 662

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 64,578 55
eventDate 19,864 0
maximumDepthInMeters 59,153 2
minimumDepthInMeters 55,263 45
occurrenceStatus 61,394 0
scientificName 1,598 0
scientificNameID 26,819 45

Spatial issues

Records on land 11,190
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 1,999

Top datasets

Dataset Records
FishNet2 Marine Data
Published 2023-12-19
16,545
CAS Ichthyology (ICH)
Published 2025-03-17
10,043
SPC CoFish Invertebrates Observations Palau 2007
Published 2018-11-16
7,646
SPC CoFish Fish Observations Palau 2007
Published 2019-01-15
6,279
Ichthyology Collection - Royal Ontario Museum
Published
5,150
Fish specimens
Published
4,965
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Published 2025-03-18
4,101
CAS Invertebrate Zoology (IZ)
Published 2025-03-17
3,514
World Ocean Database 2009
Published 2020-11-17
2,535
UF Invertebrate Zoology
Published 2024-02-12
2,126

Distribution

Disclaimer: EEZ boundaries based on Marine Regions (no endorsement).

Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Tridacna crocea Lamarck, 1819
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
771
Tridacna maxima (Röding, 1798)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
646
Holothuria atra Jaeger, 1833
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea
622
Linckia laevigata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea
521
Porifera Grant, 1836
Phylum Porifera
514
Halichoeres Rüppell, 1835
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
430
Rochia nilotica (Linnaeus, 1767)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
427
Callogobius Bleeker, 1874
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
390
Balistapus undulatus (Park, 1797)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
344
Omphalotropis L. Pfeiffer, 1851
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
334

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Calidris ferruginea (Pontoppidan, 1763) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
6 2018
Numenius madagascariensis (Linnaeus, 1766) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
76 2018
Carcharhinus falciformis (Müller & Henle, 1839) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
2 2017
Hanah hanagasa (Lau, Stokvis, Ofwegen & Reimer, 2018)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia
2 2017
Stylophora pistillata (Esper, 1792) NT
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia
2 2016
Metalia dicrana H.L. Clark, 1917
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Echinoidea
2 2016
Rumphella aggregata (Nutting, 1910)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia
3 2016
Echinostrephus molaris (Blainville, 1825)
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Echinoidea
6 2016
Fromia hadracantha H.L. Clark, 1921
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea
3 2016
Echinostrephus aciculatus A. Agassiz, 1863
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Echinoidea
4 2016

Data providers

Name Records
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute 16,545
Pacific Community 13,925
Bureau of Marine Resources 13,925
California Academy of Sciences 13,557
Royal Ontario Museum 10,115
California Academy of Sciences 10,043
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 6,550
Conservation International 6,279
The Nature Conservancy 6,279
InvertEBase 4,103