United States: Hawaii - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

United States: Hawaii

Statistics

Occurrence records	1,156,801
Species level	928,380
Species	5,908
Taxa	8,869
Datasets	219
Time range	1838 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	14,480
No WoRMS match	5,359
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	8,902
No accepted name available	1,873

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	320,194	291,561
eventDate	39,292	0
maximumDepthInMeters	476,312	2,338
minimumDepthInMeters	476,034	1,183
occurrenceStatus	323,552	0
scientificName	1,006	0
scientificNameID	42,596	1,839

Spatial issues

Records on land	31,389
More than 20 km from shore	1,327
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	37,303

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Ecosystem Sciences Division, National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Stratified random surveys (StRS) of reef fish in the U.S. Pacific Islands Published 2021-08-25	228,617
Minke whale localized acoustic detections off Kauai Published 2022-07-01	223,732
NOAA Deep-Sea Coral Research and Technology Program Published 2025-02-05	140,907
NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Ecosystem Science Division Coral Reef Ecosystem Program, Rapid Ecological Assessments of Fish Belt Transect Surveys (BLT) at Coral Reef Sites across the Pacific Ocean from 2000 to 2009 Published 2023-01-27	109,092
CRED Rapid Ecological Assessments of Coral Population in the Pacific Ocean 2007-2010 Published	94,936
MICROBIS Database (version 1) - European data Published	66,498
Fin whale localized acoustic detections off Kauai 2011-2017 Published 2021-04-24	50,034
CRED Rapid Ecological Assessment of Benthic Habitat Cover in the Pacific Ocean 2005-2010 Published	47,257
Happywhale - Humpback whale in North Pacific Ocean Published 2025-03-17	26,056
Marine data from the Bernice P. Bishop Museum Published 2023-03-20	24,164

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
Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	223,741
Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	50,038
Porites lobata Dana, 1846 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	40,307
Thalassoma duperrey (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	31,921
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	27,700
Montipora capitata (Dana, 1846) EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	17,437
Keratoisididae Gray, 1870 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	15,600
Ctenochaetus strigosus (Bennett, 1828) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	13,376
Porites compressa Dana, 1846 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	12,300
Acanthurus nigrofuscus (Forsskål, 1775) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	11,542

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	2022
Luciobrotula bartschi Smith & Radcliffe, 1913 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2022
Cetonurus crassiceps (Günther, 1878) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2022
Coryphaenoides rudis Günther, 1878 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2022
Eretmichthys pinnatus Garman, 1899 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2022
Leucicorus lusciosus Garman, 1899 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2022
Thouarella (Euthouarella) tydemani Versluys, 1906 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	116	2022
Calyptrophora diaphana Cairns, 2012 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	106	2022
Calyptrophora lyra Cairns, 2018 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	63	2021
Advhena magnifica Castello-Branco, Collins & Hajdu, 2020 Phylum Porifera > Class Hexactinellida	89	2021

Data providers

Name	Records
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	499,582
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	496,223
Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System	350,981
Duke University	321,708
Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific	279,740
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	266,124
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Dole Street Office	189,122
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	140,907
Northern Gulf Institute (a NOAA Cooperative Institute)	140,907
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	67,026