United Kingdom: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Statistics

Occurrence records 231,356
Species level 206,088
Species 3,183
Taxa 4,020
Datasets 163
Time range 1863 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 121
No WoRMS match 2,093
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 227
No accepted name available 2,991

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 264,504 222
eventDate 16,064 0
maximumDepthInMeters 173,944 92
minimumDepthInMeters 231,415 0
occurrenceStatus 179,627 0
scientificName 514 0
scientificNameID 8,976 350

Spatial issues

Records on land 14,888
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 4,518

Distribution

Disclaimer: EEZ boundaries based on Marine Regions (no endorsement).

Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Mirounga leonina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
45,737
Eudyptes chrysolophus (Brandt, 1837) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
38,497
Arctocephalus gazella (Peters, 1875)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
37,161
Diomedea exulans Linnaeus, 1758 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
10,042
Aptenodytes patagonicus Miller, 1778
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
5,348
Thalassarche melanophris (Temminck, 1828)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
3,736
Euphausia superba Dana, 1850
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
2,958
Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
2,607
Rhincalanus gigas Brady, 1883
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
2,414
Calanus simillimus Giesbrecht, 1902
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
2,035

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Lagenorhynchus obscurus (Gray, 1828)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
1 2023
Bassanago albescens (Barnard, 1923)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2019
Colossendeis bouvetensis Dietz, Pieper, Seefeldt & Leese, 2015
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Pycnogonida
3 2019
Chondrocladia (Chondrocladia) grandis (Verrill, 1879)
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
2 2019
Leptychaster flexuosus (Koehler, 1920)
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea
4 2017
Odontaster pearsei Janosik & Halanych, 2010
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea
1 2017
Coscinodiscus concinnus W.Smith, 1856
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
1 2014
Tripos furca (Ehrenberg) F.Gómez, 2013
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
1 2014
Amallothrix dentipes (Vervoort, 1951)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
1 2013
Rhynchonereella bongraini (Gravier, 1911)
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
6 2013