Philippine Sea - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Philippine Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records	692,011
Species level	492,328
Species	15,205
Taxa	18,870
Datasets	241
Time range	1834 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	1,844
No WoRMS match	12,337
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	7,060
No accepted name available	38,877

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	478,081	1,365
eventDate	54,836	0
maximumDepthInMeters	200,014	6,340
minimumDepthInMeters	185,553	5,762
occurrenceStatus	209,101	0
scientificName	2,530	0
scientificNameID	59,024	3,308

Spatial issues

Records on land	7,080
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	49,517

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	122,937
NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Ecosystem Sciences Division, National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Stratified random surveys (StRS) of reef fish in the U.S. Pacific Islands Published 2021-08-25	102,581
JODC Dataset Published 2024-06-14	64,917
A Record of the Intertidal Malacofauna of Cape Bansho, Wakayama, Japan, from 1985 to 2010 Published 2024-06-14	45,450
NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Ecosystem Science Division Coral Reef Ecosystem Program, Rapid Ecological Assessments of Fish Belt Transect Surveys (BLT) at Coral Reef Sites across the Pacific Ocean from 2000 to 2009 Published 2023-01-27	34,978
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	31,984
CRED Rapid Ecological Assessment of Invertebrate in the Pacific Ocean Published	28,331
MICROBIS Database (version 1) - European data Published	22,218
CRED Rapid Ecological Assessments of Coral Population in the Pacific Ocean 2007-2010 Published	20,768
Asia-Pacific Dataset Published 2024-06-14	14,914

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
Animalia	8,071
Acanthurus nigrofuscus (Forsskål, 1775) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	5,334
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	5,157
Polychaeta Grube, 1850 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	4,954
Sagitta Quoy & Gaimard, 1827 Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea	4,572
Tunicata Lamarck, 1816 Phylum Chordata	4,461
Pomacentrus vaiuli Jordan & Seale, 1906 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	4,405
Bacillariophyceae Haeckel, 1878 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	4,224
Naso lituratus (Forster, 1801) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	3,981
Thalassoma quinquevittatum (Lay & Bennett, 1839) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	3,924

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Odontaspis ferox (Risso, 1810) EN Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	2	2024
Etelis coruscans Valenciennes, 1862 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2024
Hydrolagus purpurescens (Gilbert, 1905) Phylum Chordata > Class Holocephali	1	2024
Randallichthys filamentosus (Fourmanoir, 1970) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2024
Gymnothorax ryukyuensis Hatooka, 2003 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2024
Squalus formosus White & Iglésias, 2011 EN Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	1	2024
Glaucus atlanticus Forster, 1777 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	6	2023
Paralomis verrilli (Benedict, 1895) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	4	2022
Peniagone japonica Ohshima, 1915 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea	5	2022
Gromia sphaerica Gooday, Bowser, Bett & Smith, 2000 Phylum Cercozoa > Class Gromiidea	7	2022

Data providers

Name	Records
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	269,675
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	268,205
Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System	143,765
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	118,128
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Dole Street Office	68,909
Japan Oceanographic Data Center	64,917
Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University	54,556
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	31,984
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	22,416
California Academy of Sciences	21,270