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Panama: all

Statistics

Occurrence records	241,901
Species level	67,814
Species	5,720
Taxa	8,176
Datasets	138
Time range	1720 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	1,187
No WoRMS match	3,108
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	1,891
No accepted name available	103,764

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	228,078	647
eventDate	16,603	0
maximumDepthInMeters	210,423	86
minimumDepthInMeters	219,486	0
occurrenceStatus	65,608	0
scientificName	1,013	0
scientificNameID	21,737	72

Spatial issues

Records on land	81,090
More than 20 km from shore	211
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	548

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
UNESCO eDNA expedition in Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection (Panama), February 2023 Published 2024-12-08	152,909
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	17,184
MICROBIS Database (version 1) - European data Published	11,093
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	9,863
UF Invertebrate Zoology Published 2024-02-12	9,052
PANGAEA - Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Published 2025-03-20	5,983
Vulnerable marine ecosystems in the South Pacific Ocean region Published 2024-05-01	5,813
Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment - Benthic Published 2020-06-09	4,742
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Published 2025-03-18	3,034
Survey of reef fishes in the Coiba National Park, Panama, May 5-22, 2003 Published 2023-10-04	2,859

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
Biota incertae sedis	102,522
Chordata Haeckel, 1874 Phylum Chordata	11,974
Animalia	7,825
Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1,925
Agaricia tenuifolia Dana, 1846 CR Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1,823
Actinopteri Phylum Chordata	1,632
Gastropoda Cuvier, 1795 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1,381
Porites astreoides Lamarck, 1816 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1,279
Polychaeta Grube, 1850 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	1,269
Actiniaria Hertwig, 1882 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1,266

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Tylosurus acus (Lacepède, 1803) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	442	2023
Micromonas pusilla (Butcher) Manton & Parke, 1960 Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Mamiellophyceae	821	2023
Cylindrotheca closterium (Ehrenberg) Reimann & J.C.Lewin, 1964 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	762	2023
Phaeocystis globosa Scherffel, 1899 Phylum Haptophyta > Class Coccolithophyceae	119	2023
Chattonella marina (Subrahmanyan) Y.Hara & Chihara, 1982 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Raphidophyceae	357	2023
Gephyrocapsa huxleyi (Lohmann) P.Reinhardt, 1972 Phylum Haptophyta > Class Coccolithophyceae	192	2023
Dolichomastix tenuilepis J.Throndsen & A.Zingone, 1997 Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Mamiellophyceae	164	2023
Pelagomonas calceolata R.A.Andersen & G.Saunders, 1993 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Pelagophyceae	119	2023
Bellerochea polymorpha Hargraves & Guillard, 1974 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	221	2023
Micromonas commoda Baren, Bachy & Worden, 2016 Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Mamiellophyceae	729	2023

Data providers

Name	Records
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization	158,357
Dirección de Areas Protegidas y Biodiversidad	152,909
Estación Científica Coiba AIP	152,909
UNESCO-IOC	152,909
UNESCO-WHC	152,909
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	38,491
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	18,967
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	11,093
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	9,863
Florida Museum of Natural History	9,052