English Channel

Statistics

Occurrence records 3,095,441
Species level 1,748,215
Species 5,112
Taxa 8,594
Datasets 239
Time range 1743 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 12,364
No WoRMS match 337,058
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 159,384
No accepted name available 90,909

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 2,684,817 622,319
eventDate 4,743 0
maximumDepthInMeters 1,504,671 0
minimumDepthInMeters 1,544,631 0
occurrenceStatus 1,109,216 0
scientificName 96 0
scientificNameID 12,038 330,046

Spatial issues

Records on land 17,990
More than 20 km from shore 42
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 4,289

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Fungi
132,850
Larus argentatus Pontoppidan, 1763
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
73,436
Phoca vitulina Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
49,267
Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius, 1791)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
38,561
Morus bassanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
36,140
Ichthyaetus melanocephalus (Temminck, 1820)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
35,754
Pseudo-nitzschia H. Peragallo in H. Peragallo & M. Peragallo, 1900
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
28,946
Larus fuscus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
28,459
Pleuronectes platessa Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
25,428
Limanda limanda (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
20,269

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Beroe gracilis Künne, 1939
Phylum Ctenophora > Class Nuda
2 2023
Aequorea vitrina Gosse, 1853
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
1 2023
Hybocodon prolifer Agassiz, 1860
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
4 2023
Lovenella assimilis (Browne, 1905)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
6 2022
Acartia (Acartiura) discaudata (Giesbrecht, 1881)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
33 2022
Turritopsis polycirrha (Keferstein, 1862)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
10 2022
Acartia (Acanthacartia) bifilosa (Giesbrecht, 1881)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
15 2022
Pseudodiaptomus marinus Sato, 1913
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
24 2022
Stauridiosarsia ophiogaster (Haeckel, 1879)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
2 2022
Pyramimonas longicauda L.Van Meel, 1969
Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Pyramimonadophyceae
2 2021

Data providers

Name Records
The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1,288,048
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 742,309
DASSH 734,940
The Marine Biological Association 734,940
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science 469,046
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer, IFREMER, Centre de Brest 395,559
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea 236,781
Seasearch 223,494
Cépralmar 207,901
Natural England 191,195