Brazil: all

Statistics

Occurrence records 743,624
Species level 515,799
Species 9,878
Taxa 13,158
Datasets 276
Time range 1648 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 8,542
No WoRMS match 34,555
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 1,433
No accepted name available 111,912

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 727,173 1,357
eventDate 46,550 0
maximumDepthInMeters 487,814 5,717
minimumDepthInMeters 460,634 5,588
occurrenceStatus 289,325 0
scientificName 211,110 0
scientificNameID 57,140 6,952

Spatial issues

Records on land 132,660
More than 20 km from shore 2,265
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 29,952

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
Abudefduf saxatilis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
12,432
Mytilaster solisianus (A. d'Orbigny, 1846)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
11,326
Acanthurus chirurgus (Bloch, 1787)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
10,848
Stegastes fuscus (Cuvier, 1830)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
10,474
Echinolittorina lineolata (A. d'Orbigny, 1841)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
10,003
Cephalopholis fulva (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
9,833
Chordata Haeckel, 1874
Phylum Chordata
9,222

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 284,833
Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense 193,806
Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro 187,637
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 162,919
Universidade Federal de Santa Maria 134,105
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 130,899
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 124,725
Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio) 119,367
UNESCO-IOC 119,353
UNESCO-WHC 119,353