Ogasawara Islands - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Ogasawara Islands

Statistics

Occurrence records	591
Species level	427
Species	249
Taxa	277
Datasets	11
Time range	1867 - 2016

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	4
No WoRMS match	15
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	0
No accepted name available	0

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	132	0
eventDate	81	0
maximumDepthInMeters	572	0
minimumDepthInMeters	606	0
occurrenceStatus	87	0
scientificName	2	0
scientificNameID	20	0

Spatial issues

Records on land	202
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	31

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Data on coral species occurrences in Japan since 1929 Published 2024-05-31	344
Asia-Pacific Dataset Published 2024-06-14	102
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	76
Fish collection of National Museum of Nature and Science Published 2024-06-14	45
Happywhale - Humpback whale in North Pacific Ocean Published 2025-03-17	10
Large benthic foraminifers around Japanese Islands Published 2023-06-08	6
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	4
Marine data from the Bernice P. Bishop Museum Published 2023-03-20	1
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Published 2025-03-18	1
UF Invertebrate Zoology Published 2024-02-12	1

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
Acropora Oken, 1815 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	29
Montipora Blainville, 1830 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	19
Platygyra Ehrenberg, 1834 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	17
Dipsastraea Blainville, 1830 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	14
Herklotsichthys quadrimaculatus (Rüppell, 1837) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	12
Cyphastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	11
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	10
Pocillopora Lamarck, 1816 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	10
Merulinidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	10
Galaxea Oken, 1815 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	9

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Montipora mollis Bernard, 1897 EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1	2016
Montipora turgescens Bernard, 1897 EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1	2016
Montipora aequituberculata Bernard, 1897 EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1	2016
Montipora peltiformis Bernard, 1897 EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1	2016
Montipora millepora Crossland, 1952 VU Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1	2016
Montipora floweri Wells, 1954 EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1	2016
Montipora grisea Bernard, 1897 EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1	2016
Montipora vietnamensis Veron, 2000 EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1	2016
Limnichthys nitidus Smith, 1958 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2015
Cyphastrea ocellina (Dana, 1846) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	6	2014

Data providers

Name	Records
National Institute for Environmental Studies	344
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka	344
University of Tsukuba, Shimoda Marine Research Center	344
Nanki‐Kumano Geopark Center	344
National Institute for Environmental Studies	344
Frontier Research Center for Global Change/JAMSTEC	102
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	76
National Museum of Nature and Science, Department of Zoology, Tsukuba	45
Duke University	10
Happywhale	10