Tonga - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Tonga

Statistics

Occurrence records	110,554
Species level	98,736
Species	2,498
Taxa	3,715
Datasets	109
Time range	1827 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	248
No WoRMS match	367
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	382
No accepted name available	103

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	18,726	25
eventDate	5,755	0
maximumDepthInMeters	17,842	0
minimumDepthInMeters	19,503	0
occurrenceStatus	16,732	0
scientificName	93	0
scientificNameID	2,305	8

Spatial issues

Records on land	2,530
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	821

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Tonga reef fish survey data 2016-2018 Published 2022-06-17	80,990
MICROBIS Database (version 1) - European data Published	5,136
National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Fishes Collections Published	3,948
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	3,372
Reef Life Survey (RLS) around New Zealand region: Reef fish dataset Published 2018-08-08	2,959
SPC PROCFish/C Fish Observations Tonga 2008 Published 2022-06-19	2,444
Happywhale - Humpback whale in South Pacific Ocean Published 2025-03-17	2,060
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	881
CAS Invertebrate Zoology (IZ) Published 2025-03-17	764
Ocean Genome Legacy Collection Published 2022-08-15	644

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
Ctenochaetus striatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	4,367
Pomacentrus vaiuli Jordan & Seale, 1906 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	3,670
Chlorurus sordidus (Forsskål, 1775) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2,816
Chrysiptera taupou (Jordan & Seale, 1906) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2,365
Acanthurus nigrofuscus (Forsskål, 1775) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2,320
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	2,299
Zebrasoma scopas (Cuvier, 1829) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2,291
Pomacentrus callainus Randall, 2002 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2,280
Scaridae Rafinesque, 1810 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,612
Scarus schlegeli (Bleeker, 1861) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,490

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier, 1816) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2018
Sphyraena helleri Jenkins, 1901 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2018
Chromis opercularis (Günther, 1867) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	16	2018
Myripristis adusta Bleeker, 1853 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2018
Lutjanus ehrenbergii (Peters, 1869) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	13	2018
Halichoeres nebulosus (Valenciennes, 1839) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	17	2018
Naso brachycentron (Valenciennes, 1835) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	11	2018
Labroides rubrolabiatus Randall, 1958 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	7	2018
Gymnocranius euanus (Günther, 1879) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	65	2018
Zoramia fragilis (Smith, 1961) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	6	2018

Data providers

Name	Records
James Cook University, Townsville	80,990
Vava’u Environmental Protection Association	80,990
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	10,279
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	5,136
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	4,829
National Institute for Water & Atmospheric Research	4,069
University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies	3,397
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	3,372
Duke University	2,448
Pacific Community	2,444