United States: North Atlantic

Statistics

Occurrence records 9,002,402
Species level 7,441,711
Species 19,873
Taxa 28,429
Datasets 700
Time range 1834 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 62,773
No WoRMS match 119,163
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 27,167
No accepted name available 77,646

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 12,280,824 147,492
eventDate 415,421 0
maximumDepthInMeters 3,316,707 468,722
minimumDepthInMeters 3,206,781 468,674
occurrenceStatus 1,954,918 0
scientificName 46,511 0
scientificNameID 1,355,967 416,012

Spatial issues

Records on land 3,256,138
More than 20 km from shore 503,255
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 92,517

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Epinephelus itajara (Lichtenstein, 1822) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
329,598
Anchoa mitchilli (Valenciennes, 1848)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
170,970
Leiostomus xanthurus Lacepède, 1802
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
135,729
Xiphias gladius Linnaeus, 1758 NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
134,176
Micropogonias undulatus (Linnaeus, 1766)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
122,004
Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
121,809
Thalassoma bifasciatum (Bloch, 1791)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
103,253
Scarus iseri (Bloch, 1789)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
88,247
Morus bassanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
87,603
Sparisoma aurofrenatum (Valenciennes, 1840)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
78,811

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Amphidinium massartii Biecheler, 1952
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
70 2023
Aglaophenia tubulifera (Hincks, 1861)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
16 2023
Pomatoschistus microps (Krøyer, 1838)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
24 2023
Acrodiscus vidovichii (Meneghini) Zanardini, 1868
Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae
27 2023
Florenciella parvula Eikrem, 2004
Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Dictyochophyceae
24 2023
Poecilia sphenops Valenciennes, 1846
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
90 2023
Dolichomastix tenuilepis J.Throndsen & A.Zingone, 1997
Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Mamiellophyceae
18 2023
Acetabularia caliculus J.V.Lamouroux, 1824
Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Ulvophyceae
17 2023
Gelliodes wilsoni Carballo, Aquilar-Camacho, Knapp & Bell, 2013
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
19 2023
Acanthosiphonia echinata (Harvey) Savoie & G.W.Saunders, 2018
Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae
31 2023