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Caribbean Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records	3,044,678
Species level	2,518,793
Species	12,322
Taxa	18,438
Datasets	501
Time range	1720 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	15,238
No WoRMS match	24,686
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	9,004
No accepted name available	91,919

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	4,180,279	268,534
eventDate	62,059	27
maximumDepthInMeters	2,120,340	487
minimumDepthInMeters	2,080,777	15
occurrenceStatus	357,580	0
scientificName	8,276	0
scientificNameID	51,066	9,833

Spatial issues

Records on land	1,412,067
More than 20 km from shore	19,709
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	48,475

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Pesquería Artesanal de la Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta - SIPEIN Published 2023-12-12	1,382,303
University of Liverpool seabird tracking in Anguilla 2012-2015 Published 2021-04-24	159,260
U.S. Virgin Islands Territorial Coral Reef Monitoring Program Database (USVI-TCRMP) Published 2022-06-01	158,443
UNESCO eDNA expedition in Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System (Belize): April 2023 Published 2024-12-08	107,679
Sistema de Monitoreo de Arrecifes Coralinos - SIMAC: Estructura Coralina Published 2024-09-19	104,887
Datos de monitoreo asociados al indicador de condición tendencias para arrecifes coralinos - ICTac Published 2022-03-07	83,243
Puerto Rico Long-Term Coral Reef Monitoring Program Database Compilation Published 2022-02-13	72,624
Puerto Rico Reef Visual Census (RVC) 2016 - 2021 Published 2023-05-01	54,638
Macrophytes occurrence data within French Mediterranen Lagoon since 2006 Published 2025-03-20	48,685
Dataset of French Observation and Monitoring program for Phytoplankton and Hydrology in coastal waters since 1987 Published 2025-03-20	48,525

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
Penaeus notialis Pérez Farfante, 1967 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	149,309
Mugil incilis Hancock, 1830 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	130,332
Elops smithi McBride, Rocha, Ruiz-Carus & Bowen, 2010 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	118,426
Callinectes bocourti A. Milne-Edwards, 1879 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	98,405
Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	95,433
Ariopsis canteri Acero P., Betancur-R. & Marceniuk, 2017 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	95,395
Sula leucogaster (Boddaert, 1783) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	93,481
Cathorops mapale Betancur-R. & Acero P., 2005 VU Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	80,534
Biota incertae sedis	75,959
Eugerres plumieri (Cuvier, 1830) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	68,963

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Tringa melanoleuca (Gmelin, 1789) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	2	2024
Tringa flavipes (Gmelin, 1789) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	1	2024
Geothlypis aequinoctialis (Gmelin, 1789) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	1	2024
Clathria (Thalysias) reinwardti Vosmaer, 1880 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	37	2023
Florenciella parvula Eikrem, 2004 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Dictyochophyceae	31	2023
Dictyota ceylanica Kützing, 1859 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	19	2023
Parasesarma asperum (Heller, 1865) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	26	2023
Ramicrusta textilis Pueschel & G.W.Saunders, 2009 Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae	27	2023
Chloroparvula japonica Lopes Santos, M.H.Noël & Eikrem, 2017 Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Chloropicophyceae	20	2023
Paramoeba branchiphila (Dyková, B.F.Nowak, Crosbie, I.Fiala, H.Pecková, M.B.Adams, Macháčková & Dvořáková) Feehan, Johnson-Mackinnon, Scheibling, Lauzon & A.G.B.Simpson, 2013 Phylum Amoebozoa > Class Discosea	35	2023

Data providers

Name	Records
Sistema de Información sobre Biodiversidad de Colombia - SiB Colombia	1,679,535
SiB Colombia	1,493,248
Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras José Benito Vives de Andréis	1,392,933
Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible	1,385,389
Autoridad Nacional de Acuicultura y Pesca	1,383,677
Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras José Benito Vives de AndréisEMAR	1,383,493
Agencia Internacional de Cooperación Alemana	1,382,303
Instituto Colombiano de Desarrollo Rural	1,382,303
Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación	1,382,303
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	306,931