East Siberian Sea - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

East Siberian Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records	2,768
Species level	1,606
Species	173
Taxa	287
Datasets	31
Time range	1849 - 2017

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	0
No WoRMS match	64
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	2
No accepted name available	159

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	2,742	75
eventDate	2,212	0
maximumDepthInMeters	442	0
minimumDepthInMeters	181	0
occurrenceStatus	393	0
scientificName	1	0
scientificNameID	231	39

Spatial issues

Records on land	1
More than 20 km from shore	1
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	1,701

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Archives of the Arctic Seas Zooplankton Published 2019-09-03	1,830
Arctic benthic invertebrate collection of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science Published 2019-10-01	241
ZINRAS_Arctic_Benthos Published 2019-08-26	142
Satellite telemetry of King Eiders from northern Alaska 2002-2009 Published 2021-04-24	74
Global benthic biogeographical regions and macroecological drivers for ophiuroids [Data set] Published 2023-11-30	74
Occurrence of Eukaryotes in the size fraction >200 micrometres, collected worldwide during the Tara Oceans expedition (2009-2013) using a WPII net and analysed on a ZooScan imaging platform. Published 2025-03-20	73
Arctic Marine Fish Museum Specimens Published 2019-08-26	55
Occurrence of Eukaryotes in the size fraction >300 micrometres, collected worldwide during the Tara Oceans expedition (2009-2013) using a Bongo net and analysed on a ZooScan imaging platform Published 2025-03-20	42
Occurrence of Eukaryotes in the size fraction >680 micrometres, collected worldwide during the Tara Oceans expedition (2009-2013) using a Régent net and analysed on a ZooScan imaging platform Published 2025-03-20	33
IPOE_Benthos_Steffens Published 2019-08-26	29

Distribution

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

Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

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Scientific name	Records
Pseudocalanus Boeck, 1873 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	285
Drepanopus bungei Sars G.O., 1898 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	233
Pseudocalanus minutus (Krøyer, 1845) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	139
Gaetanus Giesbrecht, 1888 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	124
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	115
Limnocalanus macrurus Sars G.O., 1863 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	107
Ophiocten sericeum (Forbes, 1852) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	88
Oithona similis Claus, 1866 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	75
Somateria spectabilis (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	74
Calanus finmarchicus (Gunnerus, 1770) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	65

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Hyperoche medusarum (Kröyer, 1838) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2017
Calanus glacialis Jaschnov, 1955 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2017
Parasagitta elegans (Verrill, 1873) Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea	1	2017
Melicertum octocostatum (M. Sars, 1835) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	1	2017
Mitrocomella polydiademata (Romanes, 1876) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	1	2017
Aglantha digitale (O. F. Müller, 1776) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	1	2017
Clione limacina (Phipps, 1774) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1	2017
Centropages abdominalis Sato, 1913 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2017
Acartia (Acartiura) longiremis (Lilljeborg, 1853) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2017
Limosa lapponica (Linnaeus, 1758) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	4	2015

Data providers

Name	Records
University of Alaska Fairbanks - School of Fisheries and Oceans	2,299
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences	241
Sorbonne Université	148
Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche-sur-Mer	148
Tara Oceans Consortium	148
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	127
European Bioinformatics Institute	106
Duke University	83
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	78
University of Alaska Fairbanks - Deparment of Biology & Wildlife	74