Eastern China Sea

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Statistics

Occurrence records 182,032
Species level 148,224
Species 6,943
Taxa 9,030
Datasets 165
Time range 1849 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 351
No WoRMS match 5,682
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 2,848
No accepted name available 12,320

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 193,916 247
eventDate 42,657 0
maximumDepthInMeters 100,653 1,523
minimumDepthInMeters 100,938 2,029
occurrenceStatus 58,540 0
scientificName 1,215 0
scientificNameID 20,097 1,412

Spatial issues

Records on land 2,412
More than 20 km from shore 218
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 625

Top datasets

Dataset Records
World Ocean Database 2009
Published 2020-11-17 		35,061
JODC Dataset
Published 2024-06-14 		27,029
FishNet2 Marine Data
Published 2023-12-19 		24,777
Data on coral species occurrences in Japan since 1929
Published 2024-05-31 		20,716
Marine Biological Sample Database, JAMSTEC
Published 2024-09-30 		7,844
Fixed Point Survey for Shorebirds of the family Scolopacidae and Charadriidae
Published 2024-05-16 		6,415
Asia-Pacific Dataset
Published 2024-06-14 		4,412
Survey data of seagrass beds on the Monitoring sites 1000 project, BDCJ
Published 2024-06-14 		4,154
NCOS1959_Crustacea
Published 2024-11-10 		3,731
Loggerhead turtle movement off the coast of Taiwan
Published 2021-04-24 		2,941

Distribution

Disclaimer: EEZ boundaries based on Marine Regions (no endorsement).

Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata 		3,043
Numenius madagascariensis (Linnaeus, 1766) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves 		3,022
Animalia
1,810
Bacillariophyceae Haeckel, 1878
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		1,701
Chaetoceros C.G. Ehrenberg, 1844
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		1,491
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia 		1,417
Polychaeta Grube, 1850
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta 		1,057
Flaccisagitta enflata (Grassi, 1881)
Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea 		987
Thalassionema frauenfeldii (Grunow) Tempère & Peragallo, 1910
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		983
Serratosagitta pseudoserratodentata (Tokioka, 1939)
Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea 		964

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Diadema setosum (Leske, 1778)
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Echinoidea 		1 2023
Amphistigma minuta H.L. Clark, 1938
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea 		1 2023
Porcellanopagurus nihonkaiensis Takeda, 1985
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca 		1 2023
Amphichama argentata (Kuroda & Habe, 1958)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia 		1 2023
Ctenoides lischkei (E. Lamy, 1930)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia 		1 2023
Limaria hirasei (Pilsbry, 1901)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia 		1 2023
Ophiacantha scissionis Lee, Stöhr, Bae & Shin, 2019
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea 		2 2023
Podoceropsis nanseiae Kodama, Mukaida, Hosoki, Makino & Azuma, 2024
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca 		1 2023
Microcosmus squamiger Michaelsen, 1927
Phylum Chordata > Class Ascidiacea 		2 2022
Clavelina ossipandae Hasegawa & Kajihara, 2024
Phylum Chordata > Class Ascidiacea 		2 2021

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