Laptev Sea - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Laptev Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records	24,988
Species level	6,409
Species	434
Taxa	1,085
Datasets	38
Time range	1878 - 2014

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	7
No WoRMS match	384
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	3,396
No accepted name available	298

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	25,351	24
eventDate	2,132	0
maximumDepthInMeters	22,556	13
minimumDepthInMeters	16,428	11
occurrenceStatus	17,587	0
scientificNameID	1,296	230

Spatial issues

Records on land	4
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	1,741

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
MICROBIS Database (version 1) - European data Published	16,121
PANGAEA - Data from various sources Published 2025-03-20	2,198
PANGAEA - data from Archive of Ocean Data (ArcOD) Published 2025-03-20	1,461
PANGAEA - Data from quaternary environment of the Eurasian North (QUEEN) Published 2025-03-20	1,052
Arctic benthic invertebrate collection of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science Published 2019-10-01	877
Archives of the Arctic Seas Zooplankton Published 2019-09-03	662
IPOE_Benthos_Steffens Published 2019-08-26	408
Arctic Ostracoda database 2010 Published	401
ZINRAS_Arctic_Benthos Published 2019-08-26	367
Meiobenthos and nematodes from the continental shelf of the Laptev Sea Published 2025-03-20	338

Distribution

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

Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa

Scientific name	Records
Bacteria	2,867
Planctomycetaceae Phylum Planctomycetes > Class Planctomycetacia	1,271
Deltaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Deltaproteobacteria	1,055
Gammaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	1,043
Acidobacteriaceae Phylum Acidobacteria > Class Acidobacteria	778
Proteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria	534
Alphaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Alphaproteobacteria	444
Acidobacteria Cavalier-Smith, 2002 Phylum Acidobacteria > Class Acidobacteria	372
Paracyprideis pseudopunctillata Swain, 1963 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Ostracoda	365
Algidasphaeridium Matsuoka & Bujak, 1988 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	355

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Iophon koltuni Morozov, Sabirov & Zimina, 2019 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	1	2014
Suberites cebriones Morozov, Sabirov & Zimina, 2019 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	1	2014
Rhopalonema velatum Gegenbaur, 1857 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	1	2013
Fossulaphycus arcticus Blanco, 2020 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	1	2013
Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	3	2010
Somateria spectabilis (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	21	2003
Rabilimis mirabilis (Brady, 1868) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Ostracoda	261	1998
Cytheropteron pseudomontrosiense Whatley & Masson, 1979 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Ostracoda	95	1998
Cytheropteron suzdalskyi Lev, 1972 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Ostracoda	115	1998
Cytheropteron laptevensis Stepanova, 2004 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Ostracoda	73	1998

Data providers

Name	Records
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	16,532
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	16,121
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	5,298
University of Alaska Fairbanks - School of Fisheries and Oceans	2,672
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research	1,116
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences	880
Institut für Polarökologie der Christian-Albrechts-Universität	410
Universiteit Gent, Marine Biology research group	338
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	332
Norwegian Institute for Water Research	329