United States: North Pacific - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

United States: North Pacific

Statistics

Occurrence records	3,296,160
Species level	1,811,673
Species	8,664
Taxa	13,520
Datasets	320
Time range	1840 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	8,412
No WoRMS match	69,819
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	37,872
No accepted name available	199,170

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	1,544,812	275,718
eventDate	94,668	0
maximumDepthInMeters	1,253,023	30,154
minimumDepthInMeters	1,203,227	30,137
occurrenceStatus	575,850	0
scientificName	7,016	0
scientificNameID	179,573	90,972

Spatial issues

Records on land	162,063
More than 20 km from shore	493
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	188,442

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
NOAA Deep-Sea Coral Research and Technology Program Published 2025-02-05	702,935
Global Kelp Timeseries from NCEAS/KEEN Working Group Published 2022-06-06	287,253
Abundance of Rocky Reef Fishes, Invertebrates and Algae, Reef Check California (RCCA), 2006 - 2017 Published 2023-01-18	237,709
Puget Sound Zooplankton Monitoring Program (Salish Sea, USA), starting in 2014 Published 2024-12-13	185,729
Video Annotation and Reference System (VARS) database Published	170,998
COI data from: Environmental DNA metabarcoding differentiates between micro-habitats within the rocky intertidal (Shea & Boehm, 2024) Published 2024-06-03	160,081
MMS Low Altitude Survey 1980-1983 Published 2021-04-24	71,443
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	69,702
CalCOFI and NMFS Seabird and Marine Mammal Observation Data, 1987-2006 Published 2021-04-24	68,085
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	65,563

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
Porifera Grant, 1836 Phylum Porifera	195,144
Biota incertae sedis	134,616
Laridae Vigors, 1825 Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	93,652
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	69,208
Bucephala albeola (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	61,473
Macrocystis pyrifera (Linnaeus) C.Agardh, 1820 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	38,257
Pennatuloidea Ehrenberg, 1834 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	37,786
Pisces Phylum Chordata	35,118
Heteropolypus ritteri (Nutting, 1909) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	33,480
Larus glaucescens Naumann, 1840 Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	32,984

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Suberites agaricus Turner, 2024 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	3	2023
Corallina confusa Yendo, 1902 Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae	589	2022
Bossiella plumosa (Manza) P.C.Silva, 1957 Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae	695	2022
Mazzaella splendens (Setchell & N.L.Gardner) Fredericq, 1994 Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae	924	2022
Peyssonnelia rosenvingei F.Schmitz, 1893 Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae	389	2022
Smithora naiadum (C.L.Anderson) Hollenberg, 1959 Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Compsopogonophyceae	431	2022
Bossiella frondescens (Postels & Ruprecht) E.Y.Dawson, 1964 Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae	1,284	2022
Bossiella dichotoma (Manza) P.C.Silva, 1957 Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae	393	2022
Nusuttodinium poecilochroum (J.Larsen) Y.Takano & T.Horiguchi, 2014 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	808	2022
Chloroparvula pacifica Lopes dos Santos, Noël & Eikrem, 2017 Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Chloropicophyceae	597	2022

Data providers

Name	Records
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	1,134,856
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	998,910
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	908,685
Duke University	808,226
Northern Gulf Institute (a NOAA Cooperative Institute)	702,935
Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife	456,981
United States Marine Biodiversity Observation Network	364,796
Central & Northern California Ocean Observing System	312,619
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	289,860
Boston University, Department of Biology	287,253