Heard and McDonald Islands

Statistics

Occurrence records 37,785
Species level 36,637
Species 270
Taxa 428
Datasets 81
Time range 1874 - 2016

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 20
No WoRMS match 186
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 18
No accepted name available 16

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 26,711 29
eventDate 2,436 0
maximumDepthInMeters 18,149 0
minimumDepthInMeters 18,154 0
occurrenceStatus 27,518 0
scientificName 74 0
scientificNameID 2,008 127

Spatial issues

Records on land 14,966
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 3,899

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
Eudyptes chrysolophus (Brandt, 1837) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
7,233
Mirounga leonina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
6,321
Thalassarche melanophris (Temminck, 1828)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
5,927
Aptenodytes patagonicus Miller, 1778
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
5,394
Arctocephalus gazella (Peters, 1875)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
3,138
Macronectes giganteus (Gmelin, 1789)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
2,512
Phoebetria palpebrata (Forster, 1785) NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
872
Daption capense (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
815
Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl, 1820)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
610
Hydrurga leptonyx (Blainville, 1820)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
351

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Puffinus griseus (Gmelin, 1789)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
4 2016
Fregetta tropica (Gould, 1844)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
7 2016
Diomedea epomophora Lesson, 1825 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
12 2016
Gymnoscopelus fraseri (Fraser-Brunner, 1931)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
14 2004
Icichthys australis Haedrich, 1966
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2004
Gymnoscopelus bolini Andriashev, 1962
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2004
Gymnoscopelus nicholsi (Gilbert, 1911)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
19 2004
Arctozenus risso (Bonaparte, 1840)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 1999
Euphausia superba Dana, 1850
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 1998
Pterodroma lessonii (Garnot, 1826)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
17 1992