Irish Sea and St. George's Channel

Statistics

Occurrence records 1,375,387
Species level 1,058,563
Species 4,180
Taxa 5,933
Datasets 126
Time range 1776 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 254
No WoRMS match 5,335
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 1,313
No accepted name available 7,668

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 992,752 209,472
eventDate 12,274 0
maximumDepthInMeters 831,192 0
minimumDepthInMeters 1,033,878 0
occurrenceStatus 296 0
scientificName 1 0
scientificNameID 5,463 788

Spatial issues

Records on land 3,562
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 3,628

Distribution

Disclaimer: EEZ boundaries based on Marine Regions (no endorsement).

Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Uria aalge (Pontoppidan, 1763)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
35,958
Puffinus puffinus (Brünnich, 1764)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
25,614
Limanda limanda (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
23,890
Pleuronectes platessa Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
21,515
Fulmarus glacialis (Linnaeus, 1761)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
17,488
Morus bassanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
16,696
Rissa tridactyla (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
16,646
Merlangius merlangus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
15,971
Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
15,407
Callionymus lyra Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
10,846

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Beroe gracilis Künne, 1939
Phylum Ctenophora > Class Nuda
2 2023
Helgicirrha cari (Haeckel, 1864)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
2 2023
Rathkea octopunctata (M. Sars, 1835)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
2 2023
Dolioletta gegenbauri (Uljanin, 1884)
Phylum Chordata > Class Thaliacea
1 2023
Acartia (Acanthacartia) bifilosa (Giesbrecht, 1881)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
6 2023
Labidocera wollastoni (Lubbock, 1857)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
3 2022
Eucheilota maculata Hartlaub, 1894
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
1 2022
Argentina silus (Ascanius, 1775)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
3 2022
Sebastes norvegicus (Ascanius, 1772)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2022
Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2021

Data providers

Name Records
The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 977,931
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 360,750
Natural Resources Wales 275,629
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea 238,900
Joint Nature Conservation Committee 179,305
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science 155,727
National Museums of Northern Ireland 111,158
National Biodiversity Network Trust 96,071
Duke University 81,071
Bureau Waardenburg bv – Ecology & Landscape 76,916