ABNJ: South Atlantic

Statistics

Occurrence records 555,375
Species level 440,126
Species 6,378
Taxa 9,630
Datasets 292
Time range 1849 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 1,169
No WoRMS match 38,411
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 6,293

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 7,598
No accepted name available 8,241

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 632,540 3,015
eventDate 49,916 0
maximumDepthInMeters 489,183 636
minimumDepthInMeters 405,463 280
occurrenceStatus 305,122 0
scientificName 1,246 0
scientificNameID 79,899 4,166

Spatial issues

Records on land 0
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 1,522

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Mirounga leonina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
141,077
Aptenodytes patagonicus Miller, 1778
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
17,467
Diomedea exulans Linnaeus, 1758 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
16,553
Arctocephalus gazella (Peters, 1875)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
12,729
Eudyptes chrysolophus (Brandt, 1837) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
9,847
Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
9,260
Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
6,088
Oithona similis Claus, 1866
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
5,453
Phoebetria palpebrata (Forster, 1785) NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
5,155
Thalassarche melanophris (Temminck, 1828)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
4,861

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Mesoplodon layardii (Gray, 1865)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
1 2024
Galeocerdo cuvier (Péron & Lesueur, 1822) NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
1 2020
Feresa attenuata Gray, 1874
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
4 2019
Grampus griseus (G. Cuvier, 1812)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
42 2019
Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
2 2019
Stenella frontalis (Cuvier, 1829)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
2 2019
Aphanopus mikhailini Parin, 1983
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2019
Notothenia coriiceps Richardson, 1844
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2019
Notothenia rossii Richardson, 1844
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2019
Chondrocladia (Chondrocladia) grandis (Verrill, 1879)
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
1 2019