Andaman or Burma Sea - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Andaman or Burma Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records	37,613
Species level	25,290
Species	7,182
Taxa	8,323
Datasets	125
Time range	1748 - 2019

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	534
No WoRMS match	3,484
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	149
No accepted name available	854

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	39,377	44
eventDate	12,821	0
maximumDepthInMeters	30,261	0
minimumDepthInMeters	30,621	0
occurrenceStatus	20,724	0
scientificName	125	0
scientificNameID	6,491	140

Spatial issues

Records on land	145
More than 20 km from shore	53
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	379

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS Published	7,027
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	5,741
Taxonomically comprehensive assessment of biodiversity of animal plankton throughout the world ocean Published	5,375
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Published 2025-03-18	2,156
IndOBIS Dataset (93630-103790) Published 2022-01-19	1,197
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	1,160
Indian Ocean Marine Fauna Voucher Specimens Collections (CMLRE), Kochi, India Published 2023-10-25	669
IndOBIS Dataset (28001-30000) Published 2022-01-04	536
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	514
IndOBIS Dataset (32001-34000) Published 2022-01-06	480

Distribution

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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
Pisces Phylum Chordata	362
Decapoda Latreille, 1802 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	334
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	297
Nemertea Phylum Nemertea	218
Protozoa Owen, 1858	217
Echinodermata Klein, 1778 Phylum Echinodermata	217
Thaliacea Van der Hoeven, 1850 Phylum Chordata > Class Thaliacea	179
Cephalopoda Cuvier, 1795 Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda	166
Stomatopoda Latreille, 1816 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	165
Thecosomata Blainville, 1824 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	163

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Lissocarcinus laevis Miers, 1886 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2	2019
Lupocyclus tugelae Barnard, 1950 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2	2019
Thalamita sexlobata Miers, 1886 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2	2019
Liomera monticulosa (A. Milne-Edwards, 1873) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2019
Calappa gallus (Herbst, 1803) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2	2019
Oncinopus neptunus Adams & White, 1848 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2019
Lupocyclus strigosus Alcock, 1899 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	3	2019
Monomia petrea (Alcock, 1899) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2	2019
Monomia rubromarginatus (Lanchester, 1900) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2	2019
Raymunida shraddhanandi Tiwari, Padate, Cubelio & Osawa, 2022 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2	2019

Data providers

Name	Records
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	14,257
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India	11,514
CSIR - National Institute of Oceanography, Goa	7,172
National Chemical Laboratory; Information Division	7,027
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	5,810
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	5,810
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	5,375
InvertEBase	2,156
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia	2,156
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	1,160