Gulf of St. Lawrence - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Gulf of St. Lawrence

Statistics

Occurrence records	1,783,905
Species level	1,536,804
Species	2,965
Taxa	3,957
Datasets	210
Time range	1763 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	3,886
No WoRMS match	54,277
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	18,393
No accepted name available	48,274

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	1,749,799	1,682
eventDate	687,869	0
maximumDepthInMeters	864,175	419
minimumDepthInMeters	952,141	333
occurrenceStatus	904,888	0
scientificName	18,755	0
scientificNameID	10,348	174,076

Spatial issues

Records on land	42,526
More than 20 km from shore	4,743
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	17,711

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Apoqnmatulti'k - Bras D'Or Lake Published 2024-11-05	174,810
Atlantic Zone Monitoring Program (AZMP) DFO Quebec region phytoplankton Published 2021-04-16	128,688
Canadian Maritimes Fishermen and Scientists Research Society Lobster Recruitment Index from Standard Traps- 2003+ Published 2021-04-16	111,488
DFO Quebec Region Ecosystemic bottom trawl surveys 2004-2022 Published 2025-02-06	106,353
BioChem: Atlantic Zone Monitoring Program (AZMP) Quebec Region zooplankton collection Published	97,818
Maritimes Summer Research Vessel Surveys Published 2022-03-23	88,489
ECNASAP - East Coast North America Strategic Assessment Published 2021-04-06	78,908
DFO Maritimes - Groundfish and Small Pelagic Tagging database. 1953-1999 Published 2022-03-30	71,681
DFO Gulf Region Groundfish Research Vessel Surveys Published 2022-03-30	70,636
GPS locations of Northern Gannets season 2014 / Localisations GPS de fous de Bassan saison 2014 Published 2023-05-15	66,689

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
Homarus americanus H. Milne Edwards, 1837 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	308,467
Morus bassanus (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	211,916
Gadus morhua Linnaeus, 1758 VU Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	152,109
Hippoglossoides platessoides (Fabricius, 1780) EN Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	65,798
Chionoecetes opilio (Fabricius, 1788) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	44,627
Sebastes Cuvier, 1829 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	40,653
Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (Linnaeus, 1758) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	26,257
Clupea harengus Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	24,364
Urophycis tenuis (Mitchill, 1814) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	23,310
Amblyraja radiata (Donovan, 1808) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	19,781

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Actinoscyphia aurelia (Stephenson, 1918) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1	2024
Gennadas valens (Smith, 1884) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2024
Laemonema melanurum Goode & Bean, 1896 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2024
Ruppia maritima Linnaeus, 1753 Phylum Tracheophyta > Class Magnoliopsida	56	2023
Antithamnion sparsum Tokida, 1932 Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae	1	2023
Lizzia blondina Forbes, 1848 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	138	2022
Micromonas pusilla (Butcher) Manton & Parke, 1960 Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Mamiellophyceae	618	2022
Bathycoccus prasinos Eikrem & Throndsen, 1990 Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Mamiellophyceae	852	2022
Durvillaea potatorum (Labillardière) J.E.Areschoug, 1854 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	88	2022
Mediolabrus comicus (H.Takano) Yang Li, 2020 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	168	2022

Data providers

Name	Records
Maurice Lamontagne Institute (DFO – MLI, IML), Fisheries and Oceans Canada	406,780
Fisheries and Oceans Canada – Bedford Institute of Oceanography	360,709
Dalhousie University	248,413
Ocean Tracking Network	247,710
Ocean Tracking Network	247,587
Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada	238,344
Université du Québec à Rimouski	207,490
Cégep de Rimouski	198,622
Norwegian Research Centre	174,810
Unama'ki Institute of Natural Resources	174,810