Yellow Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records 130,736
Species level 113,894
Species 3,242
Taxa 4,095
Datasets 89
Time range 1906 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 976
No WoRMS match 15,239
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 538
No accepted name available 3,379

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 138,109 0
eventDate 35,058 0
maximumDepthInMeters 136,309 459
minimumDepthInMeters 136,233 459
occurrenceStatus 130,275 0
scientificName 46 0
scientificNameID 84,552 1,499

Spatial issues

Records on land 6,362
More than 20 km from shore 3
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 30

Top datasets

Dataset Records
KOBIS database
Published 2018-11-12
20,102
mabik_cr
Published 2024-12-18
19,940
mabik_na
Published 2024-12-18
17,893
Tracking of Far Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis) along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF) (2017-2021)
Published 2022-12-08
8,628
mabik_mo
Published 2024-12-18
7,762
NCOS1959_Crustacea
Published 2024-11-10
5,702
mabik_pi
Published 2024-12-18
5,519
NCOS1959_Mollusca
Published 2018-11-12
4,601
mabik_al
Published 2024-12-18
4,493
NCOS
Published
3,644

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
Numenius madagascariensis (Linnaeus, 1766) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
8,628
Lumbrineris Blainville, 1828
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
3,094
Sternaspis scutata (Ranzani, 1817)
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1,683
Glycera unicornis Lamarck, 1818
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1,372
Goniada maculata Örsted, 1843
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1,198
Polychaeta Grube, 1850
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1,167
Maldanidae Malmgren, 1867
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1,005
Umbonium thomasi (Crosse, 1863)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
887
Terebellides stroemii Sars, 1835
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
689
Nephtys polybranchia Southern, 1921
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
666

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Apocryptodon punctatus Tomiyama, 1934
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2023
Eupleurogrammus muticus (Gray, 1831)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2023
Regalecus russellii (Cuvier, 1816)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2023
Sillago sinica Gao & Xue, 2011
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2023
Austinogebia monospina Liu & Liu, 2012
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
4 2023
Strophidon tetraporus Huang, Mohapatra, Thu, Chen & Liao, 2020
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2023
Prorocentrum redfieldii Bursa, 1959
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
1 2022
Pseudomesochra tatianae Drzycimski, 1968
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
3 2022
Actacarus pacificus Bartsch, 1979
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Arachnida
5 2022
Cerviniella permixta Cho, Kim & Lee, 2023
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
3 2022

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