Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California

Statistics

Occurrence records	11,378
Species level	10,639
Species	896
Taxa	1,084
Datasets	66
Time range	1842 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	12
No WoRMS match	190
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	1
No accepted name available	9

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	3,192	3,945
eventDate	2,180	0
maximumDepthInMeters	10,821	0
minimumDepthInMeters	10,463	0
occurrenceStatus	3,690	0
scientificName	77	0
scientificNameID	1,536	0

Spatial issues

Records on land	1
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	64

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Mingan Island Cetacean Study 84-07 Published 2021-04-24	3,688
Happywhale - Humpback whale in North Pacific Ocean Published 2025-03-17	3,267
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	1,813
Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection Published 2025-03-10	392
CAS Invertebrate Zoology (IZ) Published 2025-03-24	328
CAS Ichthyology (ICH) Published 2025-03-24	302
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	172
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Published 2025-03-18	163
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, Vaquita 1997, Cruise 1608 Published 2022-03-03	155
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, Vaquita 2008, Cruise 1637 Published 2022-03-03	146

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
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	3,373
Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758) EN Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1,299
Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1,038
Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	489
Balaenoptera edeni Anderson, 1878 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	285
Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	254
Zalophus californianus (Lesson, 1828) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	247
Phocoena sinus Norris & McFarland, 1958 CR Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	149
Balaenoptera Lacépède, 1804 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	132
Eschrichtius robustus (Lilljeborg, 1861) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	94

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	2022
Balaenoptera brydei Olsen, 1913 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	2	2022
Echinoderes abeli Anguas-Escalante, Herranz, Martínez-Arce, De Jesús-Navarrete & Sørensen, 2023 Phylum Kinorhyncha > Class Cyclorhagida	1	2019
Numenius phaeopus (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	1	2018
Heteropolypus ritteri (Nutting, 1909) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	63	2015
Carcharhinus leucas (Valenciennes, 1839) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	1	2014
Gymnothorax moringa (Cuvier, 1829) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2014
Marionia kinoi Angulo-Campillo & Bertsch, 2013 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	3	2011
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU Phylum Chordata	2	2008
Dermochelys coriacea (Vandelli, 1761) VU Phylum Chordata	3	2008

Data providers

Name	Records
Duke University	7,627
Allied Whale	3,688
Happywhale	3,498
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	1,813
California Academy of Sciences	630
Canadian Museum of Nature, Research & Collections	392
Canadian Museum of Nature	392
NOAA, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Fisheries Resources Division, La Jolla	387
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	313
California Academy of Sciences	302