Laccadive Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records 92,015
Species level 60,690
Species 9,274
Taxa 10,819
Datasets 168
Time range 1706 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 284
No WoRMS match 3,415
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 278
No accepted name available 3,537

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 91,759 9
eventDate 13,040 0
maximumDepthInMeters 49,961 0
minimumDepthInMeters 44,966 0
occurrenceStatus 18,348 0
scientificName 111 0
scientificNameID 6,470 277

Spatial issues

Records on land 544
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 2,654

Top datasets

Dataset Records
World Ocean Database 2009
Published 2020-11-17
31,450
IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
Published
6,024
Taxonomically comprehensive assessment of biodiversity of animal plankton throughout the world ocean
Published
4,973
PANGAEA - Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP)
Published 2025-03-20
4,567
IndOBIS Dataset (84001-86000)
Published 2021-02-19
1,945
Ecoscope Observation Database
Published 2025-03-20
1,601
FishNet2 Marine Data
Published 2023-12-19
1,469
IndOBIS Dataset (58001-60000)
Published 2022-01-19
1,420
IndOBIS Dataset (92001-93629)
Published 2022-01-19
1,373
IndOBIS Dataset (56001-58000)
Published 2021-01-01
1,341

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
2,702
Fiona Alder & Hancock, 1853
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
2,290
Sagitta Quoy & Gaimard, 1827
Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea
1,924
Oncaea Philippi, 1843
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
1,740
Ostracoda Latreille, 1802
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Ostracoda
1,336
Oikopleura Mertens, 1830
Phylum Chordata > Class Appendicularia
1,321
Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1,238
Corycaeus Dana, 1849
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
1,004
Polychaeta Grube, 1850
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
941
Decapoda Latreille, 1802
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
866

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Herdmania momus (Savigny, 1816)
Phylum Chordata > Class Ascidiacea
1 2023
Filograna implexa Berkeley, 1835
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
2 2023
Acanthogorgia flabellum Hickson, 1905
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia
4 2023
Odontoglaja guamensis Rudman, 1978
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
2 2023
Goniobranchus tritos (Yonow, 1994)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
4 2023
Melithaea rubrinodis (Gray, 1859)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia
4 2023
Pteraeolidia semperi (Bergh, 1870)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
2 2023
Coryphellina exoptata (Gosliner & Willan, 1991)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
2 2023
Hypselodoris yarae Gosliner & R. F. Johnson, 2018
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
2 2023
Aplysia nigrocincta E. von Martens, 1880
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
3 2023