Somalia - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Somalia

Statistics

Occurrence records	90,215
Species level	34,911
Species	2,428
Taxa	3,054
Datasets	113
Time range	1758 - 2019

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	39
No WoRMS match	763
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	279
No accepted name available	5,204

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	88,640	1,686
eventDate	14,092	0
maximumDepthInMeters	18,970	27
minimumDepthInMeters	17,882	0
occurrenceStatus	10,763	0
scientificName	20	0
scientificNameID	1,979	193

Spatial issues

Records on land	460
More than 20 km from shore	1
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	606

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	69,208
Taxonomically comprehensive assessment of biodiversity of animal plankton throughout the world ocean Published	5,873
Ecoscope Observation Database Published 2025-03-20	5,598
IFREMER/Kélonia satellite tracked late juvenile loggerhead sea turtles from Réunion Island 2008-2012 Published 2021-04-24	991
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	848
National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Fishes Collections Published	824
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	790
PANGAEA - Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Published 2025-03-20	713
UF Invertebrate Zoology Published 2024-02-12	597
PANGAEA - Data from Climate: Long-range investigation, mapping and prediction (CLIMAP) Published 2025-03-20	553

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
Fiona Alder & Hancock, 1853 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	5,335
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	5,189
Oncaea Philippi, 1843 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	4,185
Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	3,951
Sagitta Quoy & Gaimard, 1827 Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea	3,221
Corycaeus Dana, 1849 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	2,543
Oikopleura Mertens, 1830 Phylum Chordata > Class Appendicularia	2,455
Ostracoda Latreille, 1802 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Ostracoda	2,040
Paracalanus Boeck, 1865 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	2,040
Polychaeta Grube, 1850 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	1,487

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Biemna variantia (Bowerbank, 1858) Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	1	2019
Stylocoeniella guentheri (Bassett-Smith, 1890) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1	2010
Pocillopora verrucosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786) EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	2	2010
Acropora muricata (Linnaeus, 1758) EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	2	2010
Acropora hyacinthus (Dana, 1846) EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	2	2010
Acropora squarrosa (Ehrenberg, 1834) EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	2	2010
Acropora loripes (Brook, 1892) EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	2	2010
Psammocora profundacella Gardiner, 1898 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	2	2010
Leptastrea purpurea (Dana, 1846) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	2	2010
Danafungia scruposa (Klunzinger, 1879) EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	2	2010

Data providers

Name	Records
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	69,276
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	69,276
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	7,988
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	7,588
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement	6,063
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	5,873
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	1,614
Duke University	1,053
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer, IFREMER, Centre de Brest	991
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	848