ABNJ: Southern Ocean

Statistics

Occurrence records 2,464,327
Species level 1,971,668
Species 8,878
Taxa 13,402
Datasets 467
Time range 1820 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 8,183
No WoRMS match 98,586
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 21,724
No accepted name available 23,476

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 1,821,772 17,449
eventDate 212,758 0
maximumDepthInMeters 1,620,017 875
minimumDepthInMeters 1,619,916 435
occurrenceStatus 1,580,961 0
scientificName 5,742 0
scientificNameID 203,651 9,390

Spatial issues

Records on land 165,814
More than 20 km from shore 4,256
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 34,031

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
418,972
Leptonychotes weddellii (Lesson, 1826)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
371,831
Pygoscelis adeliae (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
188,014
Lobodon carcinophagus (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1842)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
144,846
Aptenodytes forsteri Gray, 1844 NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
103,519
Euphausia superba Dana, 1850
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
79,739
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
58,525
Alphaproteobacteria
Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Alphaproteobacteria
43,771
Arctocephalus gazella (Peters, 1875)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
39,207
Thalassoica antarctica (Gmelin, 1789)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
37,471

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier, 1823
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
4 2024
Acutiserolis gerlachei (Monod, 1925)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
2 2023
Diastylopsis annulata (Zimmer, 1902)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2023
Eudorella similis Calman, 1907
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2023
Sandalomenia carinata Thiele, 1913
Phylum Mollusca > Class Solenogastres
1 2023
Sandalomenia papilligera Thiele, 1913
Phylum Mollusca > Class Solenogastres
1 2023
Prosipho bisculptus Thiele, 1912
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
1 2023
Anthothoe chilensis (Lesson, 1830)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia
8 2022
Ulva prolifera O.F.Müller, 1778
Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Ulvophyceae
157 2021
Aulacomya atra (Molina, 1782)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
33 2021