Solomon Islands

Statistics

Occurrence records 71,018
Species level 55,952
Species 4,489
Taxa 6,330
Datasets 111
Time range 1837 - 2017

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 609
No WoRMS match 1,364
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 69
No accepted name available 660

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 33,749 1,593
eventDate 20,557 0
maximumDepthInMeters 32,794 699
minimumDepthInMeters 33,648 699
occurrenceStatus 20,016 0
scientificName 847 0
scientificNameID 5,118 16

Spatial issues

Records on land 9,380
More than 20 km from shore 12
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 7,779

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Pterocaesio pisang (Bleeker, 1853)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
4,988
Pterocaesio tile (Cuvier, 1830)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
3,340
Caesio cuning (Bloch, 1791)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1,928
Ctenochaetus striatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1,076
Ophiuroidea Gray, 1840
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea
950
Acanthurus lineatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
732
Scarus niger Forsskål, 1775
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
526
Zebrasoma scopas (Cuvier, 1829)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
489
Linckia laevigata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea
483
Istiompax indica (Cuvier, 1832)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
469

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Eviota flebilis Greenfield, Suzuki & Shibukawa, 2014
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2016
Eviota maculibotella Greenfield & Winterbottom, 2016
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2016
Caridina barakoma de Mazancourt, Boseto, Marquet & Keith, 2020
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2016
Eviota flaviarma Greenfield & Erdmann, 2021
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2016
Eviota oculineata Tornabene, Greenfield & Erdmann, 2021
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2016
Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier, 1816)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
158 2015
Chlorurus japanensis (Bloch, 1789)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
55 2015
Naso vlamingii (Valenciennes, 1835)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
45 2015
Scarus spinus (Kner, 1868)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
42 2015
Hipposcarus longiceps (Valenciennes, 1840)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
54 2015

Data providers

Name Records
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure 27,753
Curtin University 20,542
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle / IRD 12,149
Pacific Community 10,699
Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR) 10,699
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart 7,647
Southwestern Pacific OBIS Node 7,342
The Nature Conservancy 6,188
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute 5,888
Australian Museum 5,877