Ha Long Bay

Statistics

Occurrence records 2,101
Species level 1,969
Species 319
Taxa 356
Datasets 9
Time range 1995 - 2018

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 26
No WoRMS match 113
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 1
No accepted name available 1

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 2,230 0
eventDate 2,075 0
maximumDepthInMeters 2,238 0
minimumDepthInMeters 2,237 0
occurrenceStatus 2,109 0
scientificName 110 0
scientificNameID 138 0

Spatial issues

Records on land 117
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 0

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
Stolephorus insularis Hardenberg, 1933
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
425
Ostorhinchus pleuron (Fraser, 2005)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
57
Oxyurichthys Bleeker, 1857
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
46
Iniistius trivittatus (Randall & Cornish, 2000)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
46
Pennahia aneus (Bloch, 1793)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
46
Gerres shima Iwatsuki, Kimura & Yoshino, 2007
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
41
Cynoglossus cynoglossus (Hamilton, 1822)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
39
Engyprosopon grandisquama (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
36
Cynoglossus arel (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
31
Epinephelus sexfasciatus (Valenciennes, 1828)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
28

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Spongilla manconiae Calcinai & Bertolino, 2020
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
2 2018
Barbatia virescens (Reeve, 1844)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
1 2014
Palmadusta ziczac (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
1 2014
Canarium urceus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
1 2014
Cladocroce pansinii Bertolino & Calcinai, 2023
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
1 2003
Sargocentron rubrum (Forsskål, 1775)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2002
Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2002
Pelates quadrilineatus (Bloch, 1790)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2002
Trachinocephalus myops (Forster, 1801)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2002
Tylosurus crocodilus (Péron & Lesueur, 1821)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2002

Data providers

Name Records
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute 1,960
Frontier Research Center for Global Change/JAMSTEC 109
National Museum of Nature and Science, Department of Zoology, Tsukuba 15
Florida Museum of Natural History 6
Berkeley Natural History Museums 4
Denver Museum of Nature & Science 4
University of Alaska Museum 4
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 3
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 3
WoRMS Steering Committee 3