United Kingdom: Guernsey

Statistics

Occurrence records 34,904
Species level 24,133
Species 1,057
Taxa 1,496
Datasets 71
Time range 1776 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 82
No WoRMS match 36
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 23
No accepted name available 1,119

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 32,593 4,656
eventDate 311 0
maximumDepthInMeters 14,261 0
minimumDepthInMeters 15,272 0
occurrenceStatus 71 0
scientificNameID 55 16

Spatial issues

Records on land 290
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 205

Top datasets

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Morus bassanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
2,638
Decapoda Latreille, 1802
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
926
Calanus helgolandicus (Claus, 1863)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
879
Calanoida Sars G.O., 1903
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
854
Acartia Dana, 1846
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
674
Temora longicornis (Müller O.F., 1785)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
633
Chaetognatha
Phylum Chaetognatha
587
Larus fuscus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
551
Centropages typicus Krøyer, 1849
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
526
Calanus Leach, 1816
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
512

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Thunnus thynnus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2021
Xema sabini (Sabine, 1819)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1 2021
Anthopleura ballii (Cocks, 1851)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia
1 2019
Calliactis parasitica (Couch, 1842)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia
1 2019
Polysyncraton bilobatum Lafargue, 1968
Phylum Chordata > Class Ascidiacea
3 2019
Callionymus reticulatus Valenciennes, 1837
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2019
Chrysaora hysoscella (Linnaeus, 1767)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Scyphozoa
2 2019
Patella depressa Pennant, 1777
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
3 2019
Caulacanthus okamurae Yamada, 1933
Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae
2 2019
Candiella manicata (Deshayes, 1853)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
2 2019

Data providers

Name Records
The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 24,155
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 16,736
Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science 12,878
Seasearch 10,582
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea 5,206
Duke University 4,197
Joint Nature Conservation Committee 2,493
Observatoire Pelagis UMS 3462, University La Rochelle - CNRS 2,230
Observatoire PELAGIS, UMS 3462, University La Rochelle-CNRS 2,230
Bureau Waardenburg bv – Ecology & Landscape 2,191