République du Congo

Statistics

Occurrence records 13,342
Species level 12,736
Species 1,043
Taxa 1,162
Datasets 62
Time range 1849 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 750
No WoRMS match 1,877
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 9
No accepted name available 2

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 6,151 8,211
eventDate 2,893 0
maximumDepthInMeters 15,234 0
minimumDepthInMeters 13,875 0
occurrenceStatus 11,593 0
scientificName 1,546 0
scientificNameID 10,641 20

Spatial issues

Records on land 1,419
More than 20 km from shore 22
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 118

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
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
710
Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
673
Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
574
Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
151
Actiniscus pentasterias (Ehrenberg) Ehrenberg, 1844
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
102
Auxis thazard (Lacepède, 1800)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
92
Periophthalmus barbarus (Linnaeus, 1766)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
65
Chiridota aponocrita Clark, 1920
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea
64
Euthynnus alletteratus (Rafinesque, 1810)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
63
Pomadasys jubelini (Cuvier, 1830)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
53

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
6 2023
Larus fuscus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1 2023
Sterna hirundo Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
24 2023
Stercorarius parasiticus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
2 2023
Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl, 1820)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
25 2023
Puffinus griseus (Gmelin, 1789)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
2 2023
Puffinus puffinus (Brünnich, 1764)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1 2023
Butorides striata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1 2023
Bathymodiolus boomerang Cosel & Olu, 1998
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
1 2011
Provanna reticulata Warén & Bouchet, 2009
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
6 2011

Data providers

Name Records
Swedish Museum of Natural History 7,387
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 1,554
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement 1,547
Duke University 877
Wageningen Marine Research 770
InvertEBase 632
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 632
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 579
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute 495
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle / IRD 457