Japan Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records 257,215
Species level 221,629
Species 6,102
Taxa 7,270
Datasets 114
Time range 1849 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 356
No WoRMS match 31,934
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 1,799
No accepted name available 13,139

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 279,019 26
eventDate 6,510 0
maximumDepthInMeters 201,450 8,087
minimumDepthInMeters 200,103 8,426
occurrenceStatus 188,956 0
scientificName 539 0
scientificNameID 183,937 784

Spatial issues

Records on land 6,461
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 2,482

Top datasets

Dataset Records
World Ocean Database 2009
Published 2020-11-17
45,472
JODC Dataset
Published 2024-06-14
34,405
mabik_cr
Published 2024-12-18
34,152
mabik_na
Published 2024-12-18
30,482
mabik_al
Published 2024-12-18
24,196
mabik_pi
Published 2024-12-18
22,465
mabik_mo
Published 2024-12-18
15,059
mabik_iv
Published 2024-12-18
8,984
mabik_pr
Published 2024-12-18
8,608
Kelp Dataset
Published 2024-06-14
4,476

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Animalia
3,047
Chaetoceros C.G. Ehrenberg, 1844
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
2,221
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata
2,078
Bacillariophyceae Haeckel, 1878
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
1,891
Skeletonema costatum (Greville) Cleve, 1873
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
1,629
Coscinodiscus C.G. Ehrenberg, 1839
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
1,478
Chaetognatha
Phylum Chaetognatha
1,201
Zonosagitta nagae (Alvariño, 1967)
Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea
1,171
Tripos fusus (Ehrenberg) F.Gómez, 2013
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
1,159
Nitzschia A.H. Hassall, 1845
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
1,132

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Chiroteuthis picteti Joubin, 1894
Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda
1 2024
Omobranchus loxozonus (Jordan & Starks, 1906)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2024
Icelinus japonicus Yabe, Tsumura & Katayama, 1980
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2024
Amphictene japonica (Nilsson, 1928)
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
2 2024
Hesiospina aurantiaca (M. Sars, 1862)
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1 2024
Neptunea polycostata Scarlato, 1955
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
1 2024
Hippocampus haema Han, Kim, Kai & Senou, 2017 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2024
Delectopecten vitreus (Gmelin, 1791)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
6 2023
Vasostoma brevispicula Huang & Wu, 2011
Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea
6 2023
Parodontophora huoshanensis Li & Guo, 2016
Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea
6 2023

Data providers

Name Records
National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea 150,264
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington 45,568
U.S. Geological Survey HQ 45,568
Japan Oceanographic Data Center 34,405
Hokkaido University 4,679
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 4,304
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute 3,360
Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute 2,405
Duke University 2,378
Biodiversity Center of Japan, Ministry of the Environment 2,086