Brazil

Statistics

Occurrence records 697,241
Species level 471,965
Species 9,747
Taxa 13,049
Datasets 273
Time range 1648 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 8,537
No WoRMS match 33,895
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 1,427
No accepted name available 111,900

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 680,384 1,351
eventDate 40,061 0
maximumDepthInMeters 472,295 5,717
minimumDepthInMeters 433,990 5,588
occurrenceStatus 261,424 0
scientificName 192,243 0
scientificNameID 56,135 6,594

Spatial issues

Records on land 108,619
More than 20 km from shore 2,265
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 21,457

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Biota incertae sedis
87,550
Maxillopoda Dahl, 1956
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Maxillopoda
19,087
Tetraclita stalactifera (Lamarck, 1818)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Thecostraca
12,587
Mytilaster solisianus (A. d'Orbigny, 1846)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
11,326
Acanthurus chirurgus (Bloch, 1787)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
10,848
Abudefduf saxatilis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
10,821
Echinolittorina lineolata (A. d'Orbigny, 1841)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
10,003
Chordata Haeckel, 1874
Phylum Chordata
9,221
Haemulon aurolineatum Cuvier, 1830
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
8,102
Sparisoma axillare (Steindachner, 1878)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
7,747

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Balaenoptera brydei Olsen, 1913
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
7 2023
Micromonas pusilla (Butcher) Manton & Parke, 1960
Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Mamiellophyceae
203 2022
Clathria (Clathria) unica Cuartas, 1992
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
31 2022
Florenciella parvula Eikrem, 2004
Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Dictyochophyceae
43 2022
Pelagomonas calceolata R.A.Andersen & G.Saunders, 1993
Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Pelagophyceae
160 2022
Bellerochea polymorpha Hargraves & Guillard, 1974
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
179 2022
Chloropicon roscoffensis Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem, 2017
Phylum Chlorophyta
66 2022
Stylocheilus polyomma (Mörch, 1863)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
68 2022
Hypanus berthalutzae Petean, Naylor & Lima, 2020 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
69 2022
Chloropicon sieburthii Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem, 2017
Phylum Chlorophyta
268 2022

Data providers

Name Records
Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Campus Sao Paolo 241,601
Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense 175,122
Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro 149,984
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 129,772
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 125,266
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 124,187
Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio) 119,367
UNESCO-IOC 119,353
UNESCO-WHC 119,353
Universidade Federal de Santa Maria 115,421