South Pacific Ocean - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

South Pacific Ocean

Statistics

Occurrence records	7,634,633
Species level	3,113,893
Species	30,631
Taxa	42,710
Datasets	667
Time range	1788 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	2,609
No WoRMS match	813,200
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	97,444
No accepted name available	96,943

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	1,979,436	176,635
eventDate	181,834	0
maximumDepthInMeters	1,604,815	36,983
minimumDepthInMeters	1,455,427	35,030
occurrenceStatus	806,456	0
scientificName	5,696	0
scientificNameID	1,021,357	29,086

Spatial issues

Records on land	4,567
More than 20 km from shore	80
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	144,449

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Marine Microbes from RV Investigator voyage IN2016_V03, 170W, Pacific Ocean (2016) Published 2022-08-09	3,715,513
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	612,318
New Zealand fish and squid distributions from research bottom trawls 1964-2008 Published 2020-02-14	377,209
New Zealand research tagging database Published 2018-08-08	251,652
Elephant Seal Sightings, Macquarie Island Published	178,061
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	177,191
Movement patterns of Peruvian Boobies off Isla Lobos de Afuera 2007 Published 2021-04-24	142,153
Movement patterns of Peruvian Boobies off Isla Lobos de Tierra 2006 Published 2021-04-24	130,863
MICROBIS Database (version 1) - European data Published	112,856
The Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking (Standardised) Data from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Published 2024-10-23	99,052

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
Alphaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Alphaproteobacteria	823,092
Syndiniales Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	464,386
Bacteria	355,345
Thermoplasmata Phylum Euryarchaeota > Class Thermoplasmata	303,563
Sula variegata (Tschudi, 1843) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	273,043
Mirounga leonina (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	211,553
Nitrosopumilaceae Phylum Thaumarchaeota > Class Thaumarchaeota incertae sedis	170,454
Dinophyceae Fritsch, 1927 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	157,625
Cyanobacteria Stanier ex Cavalier-Smith, 2002 Phylum Cyanobacteria	146,866
Jasus edwardsii (Hutton, 1875) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	137,114

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Notodelphys prasina Thorell, 1859 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2024
Sphaerospora testicularis Sitjà-Bobadilla & Alvarez-Pellitero, 1990 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Myxozoa	1	2024
Vannella aberdonica Page, 1980 Phylum Amoebozoa > Class Discosea	1	2024
Proceraea gigantea Nygren & Gidholm, 2001 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	1	2024
Euplotes rariseta Curds, West & Dorahy, 1974 Phylum Ciliophora > Class Spirotrichea	1	2024
Euplotes parabalteatus Jiang, Zhang, Hu, Shao, Al-Rasheid, Warren & Song, 2009 Phylum Ciliophora > Class Spirotrichea	1	2024
Saccostrea malabonensis (Faustino, 1932) Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia	1	2024
Ectopsocopsis cryptomeriae (Enderlein, 1907) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Hexapoda	1	2024
Gyratrix hermaphroditus Ehrenberg, 1831 Phylum Platyhelminthes	30	2023
Prorocentrum emarginatum Y.Fukuyo, 1981 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	23	2023

Data providers

Name	Records
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	3,929,469
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	3,765,616
National Institute for Water & Atmospheric Research	1,180,378
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	868,059
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	858,131
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	452,200
Australian Antarctic Division	393,646
Duke University	326,522
Universidad Científica del Sur	273,016
Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System	224,735