Beaufort Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records 118,168
Species level 85,735
Species 1,215
Taxa 2,198
Datasets 82
Time range 1843 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 494
No WoRMS match 5,486
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 1,112
No accepted name available 3,699

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 100,205 15,330
eventDate 36,203 0
maximumDepthInMeters 54,789 787
minimumDepthInMeters 92,699 619
occurrenceStatus 71,599 0
scientificName 35 0
scientificNameID 52,878 992

Spatial issues

Records on land 1,899
More than 20 km from shore 102
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 4,744

Top datasets

Distribution

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Records

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Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
7,182
Erignathus barbatus (Erxleben, 1777)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
3,672
Pusa hispida (Schreber, 1775)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
3,610
Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
3,350
Pseudocalanus minutus (Krøyer, 1845)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
2,348
Calanus glacialis Jaschnov, 1955
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
2,280
Caniformia
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
1,723
Limnocalanus macrurus Sars G.O., 1863
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
1,619
Calanus hyperboreus Krøyer, 1838
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
1,539
Somateria spectabilis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1,365

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Stegocephalus similis G.O. Sars, 1891
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2024
Pseudosagitta maxima (Conant, 1896)
Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea
7 2024
Pseudomma roseum G.O. Sars, 1870
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
3 2024
Umbellula encrinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia
2 2024
Colossendeis angusta Sars, 1877
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Pycnogonida
1 2024
Ophiomusa lymani (Wyville Thomson, 1873)
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea
7 2024
Beroe abyssicola Mortensen, 1927
Phylum Ctenophora > Class Nuda
2 2024
Maldane arctica Detinova, 1985
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
8 2023
Bythocaris irene Retowsky, 1946
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
7 2023
Halirages qvadridentatus G.O. Sars, 1877
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
8 2023