United Kingdom

Statistics

Occurrence records 12,129,913
Species level 9,583,571
Species 9,202
Taxa 14,451
Datasets 478
Time range 1743 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 15,439
No WoRMS match 357,931
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 164,840
No accepted name available 124,404

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 8,690,976 2,992,454
eventDate 74,627 0
maximumDepthInMeters 5,682,197 1
minimumDepthInMeters 7,771,303 1
occurrenceStatus 1,119,359 0
scientificName 178 0
scientificNameID 34,089 332,311

Spatial issues

Records on land 359,269
More than 20 km from shore 324
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 73,393

Distribution

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Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Fulmarus glacialis (Linnaeus, 1761)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
600,328
Uria aalge (Pontoppidan, 1763)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
424,067
Merlangius merlangus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
353,522
Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
319,016
Limanda limanda (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
291,884
Clupea harengus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
272,823
Rissa tridactyla (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
266,868
Morus bassanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
266,199
Eutrigla gurnardus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
139,537
Fungi
132,890

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Helgicirrha cari (Haeckel, 1864)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
2 2023
Beroe gracilis Künne, 1939
Phylum Ctenophora > Class Nuda
11 2022
Kuhnia scombri (Kuhn, 1829) Sproston, 1945
Phylum Platyhelminthes > Class Monogenea
2 2022
Mallotus villosus (Müller, 1776)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2022
Lycodes paamiuti Møller, 2001
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2022
Lovenella assimilis (Browne, 1905)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
8 2022
Stauridiosarsia ophiogaster (Haeckel, 1879)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
2 2022
Tortanus (Boreotortanus) discaudatus (Thompson I.C. & Scott A.) In Herdman, Thompson & Scott, 1897)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
4 2022
Turritopsis polycirrha (Keferstein, 1862)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
15 2021
Leptohalysis scottii (Chaster, 1892)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Nodosariata
11 2021

Data providers

Name Records
The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 5,891,542
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 4,936,303
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea 4,212,632
Joint Nature Conservation Committee 1,695,942
Bureau Waardenburg bv – Ecology & Landscape 1,246,746
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Research and Technology Centre 1,246,746
Vlaamse overheid; Beleidsdomein Omgeving; Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek 1,246,746
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science 1,222,869
Duke University 1,004,804
DASSH 736,666