United States: Alaska: North Pacific

Statistics

Occurrence records 1,258,127
Species level 742,418
Species 4,140
Taxa 6,237
Datasets 231
Time range 1828 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 628
No WoRMS match 20,569
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 1,291
No accepted name available 8,823

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 494,981 52,002
eventDate 157,746 0
maximumDepthInMeters 723,007 1,825
minimumDepthInMeters 712,634 1,429
occurrenceStatus 218,081 0
scientificName 9,488 0
scientificNameID 159,414 3,185

Spatial issues

Records on land 39,144
More than 20 km from shore 198
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 37,734

Top datasets

Dataset Records
NOAA AFSC North Pacific Groundfish Observer
Published 2020-09-18
422,108
Global Kelp Timeseries from NCEAS/KEEN Working Group
Published 2022-06-06
167,810
FishNet2 Marine Data
Published 2023-12-19
131,498
UWFC Ichthyology Collection
Published 2019-03-15
115,060
World Ocean Database 2009
Published 2020-11-17
110,860
NOAA Deep-Sea Coral Research and Technology Program
Published 2025-02-05
87,155
Happywhale - Humpback whale in North Pacific Ocean
Published 2025-03-17
36,759
IPHC seabird survey 2002-2011
Published 2021-04-24
28,352
NaGISA Project
Published 2018-03-21
27,509
The CPR Survey
Published 2025-03-20
21,226

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Gadus chalcogrammus Pallas, 1814
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
55,806
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
38,881
Hippoglossoides elassodon Jordan & Gilbert, 1880
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
36,676
Gadus macrocephalus Tilesius, 1810
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
22,975
Saccharina latissima (Linnaeus) C.E.Lane, C.Mayes, Druehl & G.W.Saunders, 2006
Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae
21,641
Alaria Greville, 1830
Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae
21,206
Laminaria yezoensis Miyabe, 1902
Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae
21,142
Laminaria J.V. Lamouroux, 1813
Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae
20,953
Agarum Dumortier, 1822
Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae
20,740
Thala H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
20,740

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Gonatus berryi Naef, 1923
Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda
1 2024
Corymorpha groenlandica (Allman, 1876)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
1 2023
Ritterella pulchra (Ritter, 1901)
Phylum Chordata > Class Ascidiacea
1 2023
Egregia menziesii (Turner) Areschoug, 1876
Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae
1 2023
Stigmatoteuthis dofleini Pfeffer, 1912
Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda
1 2023
Volutopsius middendorffi (Dall, 1891)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
2 2023
Velutina bartschi Derjugin, 1950
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
1 2023
Retifusus roseus (Dall, 1877)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
1 2023
Gonatus kamtschaticus (Middendorf, 1849)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda
10 2022
Neocalanus flemingeri Miller, 1988
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
37 2022

Data providers

Name Records
U.S. Geological Survey HQ 621,580
University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography 422,108
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington 198,024
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure 168,780
Boston University, Department of Biology 167,810
University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies 167,810
Coastal Marine Ecology and Conservation Lab, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University 167,810
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute 131,498
VertNet 115,768
Berkeley Natural History Museums 115,139