Canada: North Atlantic

Statistics

Occurrence records 9,878,153
Species level 8,798,703
Species 7,323
Taxa 9,996
Datasets 424
Time range 1753 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 12,333
No WoRMS match 451,824
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 42,616
No accepted name available 95,752

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 8,356,583 12,266
eventDate 946,298 0
maximumDepthInMeters 6,785,128 48,780
minimumDepthInMeters 7,043,907 47,196
occurrenceStatus 2,277,982 0
scientificName 54,447 0
scientificNameID 122,675 836,844

Spatial issues

Records on land 643,911
More than 20 km from shore 28,798
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 79,729

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
Gadus morhua Linnaeus, 1758 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
984,418
Myoxocephalus scorpius (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
785,025
Homarus americanus H. Milne Edwards, 1837
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
725,926
Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
573,948
Myoxocephalus octodecemspinosus (Mitchill, 1814)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
432,064
Morus bassanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
399,810
Hippoglossoides platessoides (Fabricius, 1780) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
369,069
Merluccius bilinearis (Mitchill, 1814) NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
353,320
Sebastes Cuvier, 1829
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
281,463
Salmo salar Linnaeus, 1758 NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
226,425

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Actinoscyphia aurelia (Stephenson, 1918)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia
1 2024
Bathycalanus bradyi (Wolfenden, 1905)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
1 2024
Lucinoma thula J. D. Taylor & Glover, 2017
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
1 2024
Daptonema setosum (Bütschli, 1874) Lorenzen, 1977
Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea
12 2022
Abra tenuis (Montagu, 1803)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
14 2022
Tergipes tergipes (Forsskål, 1775)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
43 2022
Choreocolax polysiphoniae Reinsch, 1875
Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae
10 2022
Scinaia moniliformis J.Agardh, 1885
Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae
10 2022
Didemnum vexillum Kott, 2002
Phylum Chordata > Class Ascidiacea
416 2022
Mitrella moleculina (Duclos, 1840)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
11 2022

Data providers

Name Records
Fisheries and Oceans Canada 2,348,859
Ocean Tracking Network 2,141,248
Ocean Tracking Network 2,139,771
Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada 2,126,512
Fisheries and Oceans Canada – Bedford Institute of Oceanography 1,932,067
Dalhousie University 1,804,821
Atlantic Salmon Federation 1,663,516
Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs du Québec 1,511,407
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 1,507,253
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Maurice Lamontagne Institute 1,373,897