Panama: North Atlantic - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Panama: North Atlantic

Statistics

Occurrence records	60,055
Species level	30,398
Species	2,899
Taxa	4,390
Datasets	82
Time range	1720 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	433
No WoRMS match	1,365
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	1,584
No accepted name available	1,083

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	53,298	125
eventDate	6,787	0
maximumDepthInMeters	32,079	85
minimumDepthInMeters	41,457	0
occurrenceStatus	44,229	0
scientificName	325	0
scientificNameID	10,241	49

Spatial issues

Records on land	7,429
More than 20 km from shore	153
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	212

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	15,365
MICROBIS Database (version 1) - European data Published	11,093
UF Invertebrate Zoology Published 2024-02-12	5,805
Vulnerable marine ecosystems in the South Pacific Ocean region Published 2024-05-01	5,504
PANGAEA - Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Published 2025-03-20	4,922
Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment - Benthic Published 2020-06-09	4,742
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	4,544
Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment - Fish Published	2,408
FishBase Database Published 2023-03-23	956
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	768

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
Agaricia tenuifolia Dana, 1846 CR Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1,823
Porites astreoides Lamarck, 1816 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1,279
Gastropoda Cuvier, 1795 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1,267
Polychaeta Grube, 1850 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	1,258
Actiniaria Hertwig, 1882 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1,244
Bivalvia Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia	1,213
Alphaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Alphaproteobacteria	1,045
Gammaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	971
Crustacea Brünnich, 1772 Phylum Arthropoda	926
Orbicella faveolata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	733

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Petalifera ramosa Baba, 1959 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1	2023
Phidiana lynceus Bergh, 1867 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	3	2023
Thuridilla picta (A. E. Verrill, 1901) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1	2023
Atys caribaeus (A. d'Orbigny, 1841) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1	2023
Cylindrobulla beauii P. Fischer, 1857 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1	2023
Lobiger souverbii P. Fischer, 1857 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1	2023
Oxynoe azuropunctata K. R. Jensen, 1980 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	3	2023
Ascobulla ulla (Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1970) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	3	2023
Elysia patina Ev. Marcus, 1980 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	3	2023
Tayuva confusa (Ballesteros, Llera & Ortea, 1985) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	2	2023

Data providers

Name	Records
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	34,486
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	15,774
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	11,093
Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, University of Miami	7,150
Florida Museum of Natural History	5,805
National Institute for Water & Atmospheric Research	5,538
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	5,334
Universidad Simon Bolivar	4,941
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	4,544
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	995