United Kingdom: all

Statistics

Occurrence records 12,794,019
Species level 10,165,508
Species 18,041
Taxa 24,835
Datasets 757
Time range 1743 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 17,749
No WoRMS match 368,548
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 166,923
No accepted name available 131,452

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 9,172,773 3,199,567
eventDate 137,695 0
maximumDepthInMeters 6,176,745 274
minimumDepthInMeters 8,318,292 108
occurrenceStatus 1,391,763 0
scientificName 2,589 0
scientificNameID 74,255 333,186

Spatial issues

Records on land 408,014
More than 20 km from shore 324
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 82,276

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Fulmarus glacialis (Linnaeus, 1761)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
600,689
Uria aalge (Pontoppidan, 1763)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
424,226
Merlangius merlangus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
353,534
Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
319,018
Limanda limanda (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
291,894
Clupea harengus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
272,824
Morus bassanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
269,182
Rissa tridactyla (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
267,251
Eutrigla gurnardus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
139,538
Fungi
132,935

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Helgicirrha cari (Haeckel, 1864)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
2 2023
Acanthostracion notacanthus (Bleeker, 1863)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
11 2023
Decapterus muroadsi (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2023
Prognathodes dichrous (Günther, 1869)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
3 2023
Chromis sanctaehelenae Edwards, 1987
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
3 2023
Bothus mellissi Norman, 1931
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
4 2023
Scorpaenodes insularis Eschmeyer, 1971
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
3 2023
Stegastes sanctaehelenae (Sauvage, 1879)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
182 2023
Amblycirrhitus pinos (Mowbray, 1927)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
10 2023
Diplodus helenae (Sauvage, 1879)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
22 2023

Data providers

Name Records
The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 5,941,311
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 4,983,711
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea 4,219,686
Joint Nature Conservation Committee 1,698,829
Bureau Waardenburg bv – Ecology & Landscape 1,249,331
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Research and Technology Centre 1,249,331
Vlaamse overheid; Beleidsdomein Omgeving; Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek 1,249,331
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science 1,227,323
Duke University 1,213,557
DASSH 736,666