United States: Alaska: Arctic Ocean - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

United States: Alaska: Arctic Ocean

Statistics

Occurrence records	135,358
Species level	91,426
Species	1,412
Taxa	2,493
Datasets	101
Time range	1849 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	244
No WoRMS match	5,339
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	1,489
No accepted name available	2,288

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	106,010	26,015
eventDate	20,474	0
maximumDepthInMeters	65,719	880
minimumDepthInMeters	83,715	623
occurrenceStatus	63,248	0
scientificName	80	0
scientificNameID	35,566	1,447

Spatial issues

Records on land	6,392
More than 20 km from shore	1
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	4,391

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Marine mammal aerial surveys in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas 1979-2010 Published 2021-04-24	22,369
US-CAN-Transboundary_BOEMproject_Beaufort Sea_Epibenthos_2012_2013_2014 Published 2022-11-20	16,992
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	15,203
MICROBIS Database (version 1) - European data Published	8,169
Fish length, weight, and abundance data from trawl surveys in the Chukchi Sea, Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (AMBON) research cruise on the vessel Norseman II, 09 August 2015 - 03 September 2015 Published 2023-01-18	6,857
Acoustic detections of Arctic mammals in the western Beaufort Sea 2010-2011 Published 2021-04-24	5,824
Benthic Epifauna Biomass and Abundance Data, Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (AMBON) research cruise on the Norseman II, 9 August 2015 - 3 September 2015 Published 2023-01-18	4,840
Zooplankton Species Distribution and Abundance Data, Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (AMBON) Chukchi Sea research cruise, August 2017 Published 2022-03-31	4,703
Marine Bird Sighting Data, Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (AMBON) Chukchi Sea research cruise on the vessel Norseman II from 2015-08-09 to 2015-09-03 Published 2023-01-18	4,183
CAS Invertebrate Zoology (IZ) Published 2025-03-24	3,512

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
Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	8,302
Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	4,662
Erignathus barbatus (Erxleben, 1777) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	4,310
Caniformia Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	3,937
Pusa hispida (Schreber, 1775) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	3,861
Odobenus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	3,246
Somateria spectabilis (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	3,174
Lumpenus fabricii Reinhardt, 1836 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,832
Gymnocanthus tricuspis (Reinhardt, 1830) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,754
Dinophyceae Fritsch, 1927 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	1,572

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	2	2024
Oithona setigera Dana, 1853-1855 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	11	2017
Diastylis scorpioides (Lepechin, 1780) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	3	2017
Nereis pelagica Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	2	2017
Oenopota pyramidalis (Strøm, 1788) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	9	2017
Acartia (Acartiura) hudsonica Pinhey, 1926 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	14	2017
Gymnocanthus pistilliger (Pallas, 1814) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2017
Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus (Pallas, 1814) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	4	2017
Orchistoma pileus (Lesson, 1843) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	5	2017
Eunoe uniseriata Banse & Hobson, 1968 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	2	2017

Data providers

Name	Records
University of Alaska Fairbanks	46,049
Duke University	32,585
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	32,470
Axiom Data Science	29,057
The Marine Mammal Laboratory	22,369
United States Marine Biodiversity Observation Network	21,033
UiT - the Arctic University of Norway	16,992
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	16,453
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	11,623
University of Alaska Fairbanks - School of Fisheries and Oceans	10,181