Saint Lucia

Statistics

Occurrence records 3,684
Species level 3,421
Species 753
Taxa 858
Datasets 47
Time range 1849 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 25
No WoRMS match 69
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 1
No accepted name available 15

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 3,242 22
eventDate 1,321 0
maximumDepthInMeters 3,092 0
minimumDepthInMeters 3,078 0
occurrenceStatus 3,314 0
scientificName 39 0
scientificNameID 375 6

Spatial issues

Records on land 983
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 243

Top datasets

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
Acanthurus bahianus Castelnau, 1855
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
59
Rypticus saponaceus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
55
Gymnothorax moringa (Cuvier, 1829)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
44
Haemulon flavolineatum (Desmarest, 1823)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
44
Thalassoma bifasciatum (Bloch, 1791)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
43
Dactyloscopus tridigitatus Gill, 1859
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
43
Ophioblennius atlanticus (Valenciennes, 1836)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
42
Apogon maculatus (Poey, 1860)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
42
Holocentrus adscensionis (Osbeck, 1765)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
41
Myripristis jacobus Cuvier, 1829
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
41

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray, 1846
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
4 2024
Lagenodelphis hosei Fraser, 1956
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
1 2024
Oplophorus spinosus (Brullé, 1839)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2012
Eques lanceolatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2012
Azurina cyanea (Poey, 1860)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2012
Numenius phaeopus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1 2011
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata
1 2010
Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
2 2008
Halophila stipulacea (Forsskål) Ascherson, 1867
Phylum Tracheophyta > Class Magnoliopsida
1 2008
Sula leucogaster (Boddaert, 1783)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1 2008

Data providers

Name Records
Royal Ontario Museum 1,472
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute 1,124
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 1,091
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 284
U.S. Geological Survey HQ 284
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington 281
Florida Museum of Natural History 213
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 99
Northern Gulf Institute (a NOAA Cooperative Institute) 99
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure 64