Barbados

Statistics

Occurrence records 10,075
Species level 9,257
Species 1,456
Taxa 1,692
Datasets 66
Time range 1793 - 2019

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 214
No WoRMS match 482
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 14
No accepted name available 16

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 9,273 85
eventDate 4,379 0
maximumDepthInMeters 9,132 0
minimumDepthInMeters 8,997 0
occurrenceStatus 9,548 0
scientificName 178 0
scientificNameID 1,510 73

Spatial issues

Records on land 3,055
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 712

Distribution

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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
187
Halichoeres bivittatus (Bloch, 1791)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
130
Ophioblennius atlanticus (Valenciennes, 1836)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
112
Stegastes adustus (Troschel, 1865)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
110
Acanthurus bahianus Castelnau, 1855
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
106
Caranx latus Agassiz, 1831
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
102
Thalassoma bifasciatum (Bloch, 1791)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
93
Rypticus saponaceus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
86
Gymnothorax moringa (Cuvier, 1829)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
84
Haemulon flavolineatum (Desmarest, 1823)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
82

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Syacium papillosum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2013
Syacium gunteri Ginsburg, 1933
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2013
Numenius phaeopus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1 2012
Aplysina fistularis (Pallas, 1766)
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
1 2012
Gymnothorax afer Bloch, 1795
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2012
Abudefduf troschelii (Gill, 1862)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2012
Hypanus guttatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
1 2012
Puffinus gravis (O'Reilly, 1818)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
6 2010
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata
8 2010
Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
2 2008

Data providers

Name Records
Royal Ontario Museum 3,946
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute 2,939
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 2,919
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 824
InvertEBase 428
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 409
Canadian Museum of Nature, Research & Collections 315
Canadian Museum of Nature 315
U.S. Geological Survey HQ 309
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington 306