Greenland Sea

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Statistics

Occurrence records 118,097
Species level 97,139
Species 2,196
Taxa 3,058
Datasets 181
Time range 1753 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 394
No WoRMS match 4,569
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 526
No accepted name available 939

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 113,500 876
eventDate 15,903 0
maximumDepthInMeters 65,087 95
minimumDepthInMeters 31,352 102
occurrenceStatus 10,854 0
scientificName 57 0
scientificNameID 10,490 2,185

Spatial issues

Records on land 579
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 8,866

Top datasets

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (Ehrenberg, 1861)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea 		8,207
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia 		7,147
Gadus morhua Linnaeus, 1758 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		4,989
Turborotalita quinqueloba (Natland, 1938)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea 		3,696
Reinhardtius hippoglossoides (Walbaum, 1792) NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		2,056
Neogloboquadrina incompta (Cifelli, 1961)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea 		1,741
Fulmarus glacialis (Linnaeus, 1761)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves 		1,711
Boreogadus saida (Lepechin, 1774)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		1,665
Discoconchoecia elegans (Sars, 1866)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Ostracoda 		1,507
Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		1,498

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Molva dypterygia (Pennant, 1784)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		1 2023
Liparis bathyarcticus Parr, 1931
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		13 2021
Celleporella hyalina (Linnaeus, 1767)
Phylum Bryozoa > Class Gymnolaemata 		6 2020
Enhydrosoma curticauda Boeck, 1873
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		4 2020
Campanularia hincksii Alder, 1856
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa 		4 2020
Apistobranchus typicus (Webster & Benedict, 1887)
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta 		6 2020
Tintinnidium mucicola (Claparède & Lachmann, 1858) Daday, 1887
Phylum Ciliophora > Class Oligotrichea 		6 2020
Lebbeus grandimanus (Bražnikov, 1907)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca 		8 2020
Spirorbis (Spirorbis) bifurcatus Knight-Jones, 1978
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta 		6 2020
Lebbeus virentova Nye, Copley, Plouvier & Van Dover, 2013
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca 		6 2020

Data providers

Name Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 53,587
Institute of Marine Research 37,834
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research 13,055
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel 11,862
Duke University 9,240
University of Alaska Fairbanks - School of Fisheries and Oceans 7,196
Happywhale 6,882
The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 6,394
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington 5,259
U.S. Geological Survey HQ 5,259