Barentsz Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records 409,486
Species level 330,874
Species 2,602
Taxa 3,494
Datasets 124
Time range 1800 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 74
No WoRMS match 2,591
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 943
No accepted name available 6,424

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 407,165 45
eventDate 27,100 0
maximumDepthInMeters 49,990 38
minimumDepthInMeters 47,288 41
occurrenceStatus 8,489 0
scientificName 6 0
scientificNameID 5,682 3,515

Spatial issues

Records on land 353
More than 20 km from shore 79
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 23,359

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Calanus finmarchicus (Gunnerus, 1770)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
17,774
Gadus morhua Linnaeus, 1758 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
13,083
Mallotus villosus (Müller, 1776)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
12,371
Hippoglossoides platessoides (Fabricius, 1780) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
10,455
Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
9,970
Pseudocalanus elongatus (Brady, 1865)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
6,824
Sebastes mentella Travin, 1951
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
6,081
Amblyraja radiata (Donovan, 1808) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
6,034
Animalia
5,189
Paralithodes camtschaticus (Tilesius, 1815)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
5,120

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Enhydra lutris (Linnaeus, 1758) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
2 2023
Belone belone (Linnaeus, 1760)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2020
Lycodonus flagellicauda (Jensen, 1902)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
4 2020
Bolocera tuediae (Johnston, 1832)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia
2 2019
Caprella tuberculata Guérin-Meneville, 1836
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
2 2019
Lafoeina maxima Levinsen, 1893
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
3 2019
Sprattus sprattus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2019
Biemna variantia (Bowerbank, 1858)
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
3 2019
Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
14 2019
Liparis bathyarcticus Parr, 1931
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
95 2019

Data providers

Name Records
Institute of Marine Research 191,001
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington 87,200
U.S. Geological Survey HQ 87,200
DNV 72,472
GBIF Norway 72,472
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 42,373
University of Alaska Fairbanks - School of Fisheries and Oceans 26,883
Institute of Marine Research 8,663
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research 7,008
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 6,673