United Kingdom: British Indian Ocean Territory - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

United Kingdom: British Indian Ocean Territory

Statistics

Occurrence records	45,200
Species level	37,317
Species	1,880
Taxa	2,140
Datasets	74
Time range	1758 - 2022

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	0
No WoRMS match	279
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	56
No accepted name available	596

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	44,056	15
eventDate	26,223	0
maximumDepthInMeters	37,553	70
minimumDepthInMeters	38,352	0
occurrenceStatus	15,510	0
scientificName	81	0
scientificNameID	2,829	15

Spatial issues

Records on land	1,274
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	11

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Ecoscope tuna bycatch observer data Published 2025-03-20	16,170
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	5,858
Fish specimens Published	4,028
Ichthyology Collection - Royal Ontario Museum Published	3,419
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	2,929
Ecoscope tuna observer data Published 2025-03-20	2,874
Ecoscope Observation Database Published 2025-03-20	2,379
UF Invertebrate Zoology Published 2024-02-12	1,540
National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Fishes Collections Published	982
Diversity of the Indo-Pacific (DIPnet) Published	687

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
Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,862
Elagatis bipinnulata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,804
Carcharhinus falciformis (Müller & Henle, 1839) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	1,682
Acanthocybium solandri (Cuvier, 1832) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,663
Canthidermis maculata (Bloch, 1786) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,646
Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,403
Sphyraena barracuda (Edwards, 1771) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,147
Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,034
Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,026
Uraspis secunda (Poey, 1860) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	659

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Chromis abadhah Rocha, Pinheiro, Najeeb, Rocha & Shepherd, 2024 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2022
Mesoplodon hotaula Deraniyagala, 1963 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	2018
Paracanthurus hepatus (Linnaeus, 1766) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2013
Canthigaster smithae Allen & Randall, 1977 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2013
Zebrasoma desjardinii (Bennett, 1836) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2013
Mobula alfredi (Krefft, 1868) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	12	2013
Sula sula (Linnaeus, 1766) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	247	2012
Anous stolidus (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	169	2012
Puffinus pacificus (Gmelin, 1789) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	110	2012
Gygis alba (Sparrman, 1786) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	148	2012

Data providers

Name	Records
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement	21,546
Royal Ontario Museum	7,447
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	6,086
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	5,859
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	5,859
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	2,929
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	2,748
Florida Museum of Natural History	1,540
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	1,327
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	1,115