Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection

Statistics

Occurrence records	91,909
Species level	11,500
Species	811
Taxa	1,209
Datasets	32
Time range	1849 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	72
No WoRMS match	47
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	132
No accepted name available	60,236

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	86,976	5
eventDate	553	0
maximumDepthInMeters	91,854	0
minimumDepthInMeters	91,818	0
occurrenceStatus	514	0
scientificName	10	0
scientificNameID	199	14

Spatial issues

Records on land	64
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	13

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
UNESCO eDNA expedition in Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection (Panama), February 2023 Published 2024-12-08	86,486
Survey of reef fishes in the Coiba National Park, Panama, May 5-22, 2003 Published 2023-10-04	2,737
Fish species counts in 3, 20x40 m transects, Panama, 1980-2010 Published 2023-10-03	1,757
Peces asociados a arrecifes y manglares en el Parque Nacional Coiba Published 2023-10-03	272
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	196
National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Fishes Collections Published	71
UF Invertebrate Zoology Published 2024-02-12	64
CAS Invertebrate Zoology (IZ) Published 2025-03-17	53
An Indo-Pacific coral spawning database Published 2022-06-08	48
CAS Ichthyology (ICH) Published 2025-03-17	45

Distribution

Disclaimer: EEZ boundaries based on Marine Regions (no endorsement).

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
Biota incertae sedis	60,178
Chordata Haeckel, 1874 Phylum Chordata	6,986
Animalia	4,123
Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1,208
Actinopteri Phylum Chordata	1,027
Azurina atrilobata (Gill, 1862) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	455
Micromonas pusilla (Butcher) Manton & Parke, 1960 Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Mamiellophyceae	450
Micromonas commoda Baren, Bachy & Worden, 2016 Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Mamiellophyceae	440
Arthropoda Gravenhorst, 1843 Phylum Arthropoda	415
Dinophyceae Fritsch, 1927 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	376

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Tylosurus acus (Lacepède, 1803) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	164	2023
Micromonas pusilla (Butcher) Manton & Parke, 1960 Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Mamiellophyceae	450	2023
Cylindrotheca closterium (Ehrenberg) Reimann & J.C.Lewin, 1964 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	327	2023
Haemulon aurolineatum Cuvier, 1830 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	117	2023
Chattonella marina (Subrahmanyan) Y.Hara & Chihara, 1982 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Raphidophyceae	174	2023
Gephyrocapsa huxleyi (Lohmann) P.Reinhardt, 1972 Phylum Haptophyta > Class Coccolithophyceae	108	2023
Eucinostomus melanopterus (Bleeker, 1863) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	151	2023
Dolichomastix tenuilepis J.Throndsen & A.Zingone, 1997 Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Mamiellophyceae	101	2023
Bellerochea polymorpha Hargraves & Guillard, 1974 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	123	2023
Micromonas commoda Baren, Bachy & Worden, 2016 Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Mamiellophyceae	440	2023

Data providers

Name	Records
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization	91,295
Dirección de Areas Protegidas y Biodiversidad	86,486
Estación Científica Coiba AIP	86,486
UNESCO-IOC	86,486
UNESCO-WHC	86,486
OBIS	4,809
Bishop Museum	2,737
Hofstra University	2,737
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution	2,737
Universidad de Panamá	315