New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands

Statistics

Occurrence records	27,534
Species level	24,516
Species	1,171
Taxa	1,734
Datasets	91
Time range	1849 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	21
No WoRMS match	94
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	19
No accepted name available	23

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	2,258	7
eventDate	1,493	0
maximumDepthInMeters	3,665	0
minimumDepthInMeters	4,976	0
occurrenceStatus	1,467	0
scientificName	44	0
scientificNameID	592	4

Spatial issues

Records on land	42
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	3,294

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
New Zealand sea lion (Phocarctos hookeri) movement and dive data - Campbell Island/Motu Ihupuku, New Zealand (2012-2015) Published 2023-11-15	11,401
New Zealand research tagging database Published 2018-08-08	3,781
NIWA Invertebrate Collection Published 2022-11-24	3,572
Soviet Trawl Fishery Data (New Zealand Waters) 1964-1987 Published 2020-02-12	875
Vulnerable marine ecosystems in the South Pacific Ocean region Published 2024-05-01	813
Australian Museum Marine Invertebrate Collection Published 2023-06-28	762
New Zealand fish and squid distributions from research bottom trawls 1964-2008 Published 2020-02-14	655
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	614
Protected species bycatch in New Zealand fisheries Published 2022-08-29	595
Southern right whales wintering in the Auckland Islands, 1995-1998 Published 2019-12-29	525

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa

Scientific name	Records
Phocarctos hookeri (Gray, 1844) EN Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	11,448
Metanephrops challengeri (Balss, 1914) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	3,349
Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	535
Jasus edwardsii (Hutton, 1875) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	369
Porifera Grant, 1836 Phylum Porifera	362
Actiniaria Hertwig, 1882 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	328
Jacquinotia edwardsii (Jacquinot <i>in</i> Jacquinot & Lucas, 1853) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	282
Pterodroma mollis (Gould, 1844) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	263
Procellaria aequinoctialis Linnaeus, 1758 VU Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	243
Nototodarus sloanii (Gray, 1849) Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda	223

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	2018
Eudyptes sclateri Buller, 1888 EN Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	2	2018
Charadrius bicinctus Jardine & Selby, 1827 NT Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	4	2017
Crossaster penicillatus Sladen, 1889 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea	2	2016
Scymnodon macracanthus (Regan, 1906) Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	1	2016
Oithona similis Claus, 1866 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	9	2013
Thysanoessa gregaria G.O. Sars, 1883 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	11	2013
Phoebetria palpebrata (Forster, 1785) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	16	2013
Clausocalanus brevipes Frost & Fleminger, 1968 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	9	2013
Leucocarbo colensoi (Buller, 1888) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	14	2013

Data providers

Name	Records
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	12,752
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania	11,629
National Institute for Water & Atmospheric Research	11,045
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	1,043
Australian Museum	993
British Antarctic Survey	935
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	642
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	618
Dragonfly Data Science	595
School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland	525