United Kingdom: Bermuda - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

United Kingdom: Bermuda

Statistics

Occurrence records	62,576
Species level	40,533
Species	2,553
Taxa	4,358
Datasets	116
Time range	1849 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	787
No WoRMS match	6,380
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	1,404
No accepted name available	204

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	59,535	1,061
eventDate	12,012	0
maximumDepthInMeters	27,223	106
minimumDepthInMeters	28,994	106
occurrenceStatus	51,159	0
scientificName	979	0
scientificNameID	20,832	252

Spatial issues

Records on land	1,407
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	487

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Fishes Collections Published	13,286
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	8,573
CAS Ichthyology (ICH) Published 2025-03-17	5,807
Marine metagenomes from the bioGEOTRACES project (2010-2011) Published 2023-10-27	5,331
Marine metagenomes from the bioGEOTRACES project Published 2022-09-20	4,997
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	4,274
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	3,857
Discovery Collections Midwater Database Published 2021-12-14	3,179
TOPP Fish (TOPP) Published	1,848
Nekton Bermuda data and additional material Published 2021-09-06	1,820

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
Bacteria	3,130
Thunnus orientalis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,848
Animalia	1,320
Lampanyctus pusillus (Johnson, 1890) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	931
Sternoptyx diaphana Hermann, 1781 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	829
Notolychnus valdiviae (Brauer, 1904) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	712
Ceratoscopelus warmingii (Lütken, 1892) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	656
Melamphaes pumilus Ebeling, 1962 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	542
Anguilla Schrank, 1798 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	525
Hygophum hygomii (Lütken, 1892) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	520

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Craniella cranium (Müller, 1776) Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	1	2019
Sporochnus bolleanus Montagne, 1856 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	19	2016
Aplysina cauliformis (Carter, 1882) Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	12	2016
Prognathodes guyanensis (Durand, 1960) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	11	2016
Serranus phoebe Poey, 1851 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	20	2016
Distichopathes filix (Pourtalès, 1867) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	40	2016
Verdigellas peltata D.L.Ballantine & J.N.Norris, 1994 Phylum Prasinodermatophyta > Class Palmophyllophyceae	14	2016
Caulerpa chemnitzia (Esper) J.V.Lamouroux, 1809 Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Ulvophyceae	12	2016
Orbicella franksi (Gregory, 1895) NT Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	20	2016
Lobophora canariensis (Sauvageau) C.W.Vieira, De Clerck & Payri, 2016 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	28	2016

Data providers

Name	Records
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	20,634
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	17,143
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	8,573
California Academy of Sciences	5,984
California Academy of Sciences	5,807
European Molecular Biology Laboratory	5,704
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	5,557
MIT	4,997
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	4,861
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	4,561