Sea of Okhotsk - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Sea of Okhotsk

Statistics

Occurrence records	17,508
Species level	12,885
Species	1,228
Taxa	1,623
Datasets	83
Time range	1849 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	186
No WoRMS match	316
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	139
No accepted name available	1,109

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	18,562	396
eventDate	2,357	0
maximumDepthInMeters	14,365	1
minimumDepthInMeters	13,033	12
occurrenceStatus	3,083	0
scientificName	105	0
scientificNameID	1,571	52

Spatial issues

Records on land	1,259
More than 20 km from shore	7
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	1,626

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	3,443
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	1,694
Arctic benthic invertebrate collection of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science Published 2019-10-01	1,391
Historical distribution of whales shown by logbook records 1785-1913 Published 2023-02-08	1,045
Fixed Point Survey for Shorebirds of the family Scolopacidae and Charadriidae Published 2024-05-16	896
NMFS Turtle Tracking Published 2021-04-24	813
NW pacific deep-sea benthos distribution and abundance (Beneficial Project) Published 2020-06-24	682
JODC Dataset Published 2024-06-14	675
Global benthic biogeographical regions and macroecological drivers for ophiuroids [Data set] Published 2023-11-30	659
NW Pacific Deep-sea Benthos Biodiversity (Beneficial Project) Published 2022-04-22	627

Distribution

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

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	1,978
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU Phylum Chordata	813
Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	715
Eubalaena japonica (Lacépède, 1818) EN Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	329
Ophiopholis aculeata (Linnaeus, 1767) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	250
Saccharina japonica var. ochotensis (Miyabe) N.Yotsukura, S.Kawashima, T.Kawai, T.Abe & L.D.Druehl, 2008 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	200
Ophiura sarsii Lütken, 1855 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	197
Amphiodia craterodmeta H.L. Clark, 1911 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	194
Nassellaria Phylum Radiozoa > Class Polycystina	172
Somateria spectabilis (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	167

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Upogebia major (De Haan, 1841) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	9	2022
Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	2020
Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	2020
Desdimelita spicatimanus Labay, 2022 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2020
Eosymtes magnumoculis Labay, 2022 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2019
Neopleustes pulchellus (Krøyer, 1846) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2018
Calidris ferruginea (Pontoppidan, 1763) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	4	2018
Hendrycksopleustes neimanii Labay, 2021 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2018
Haustorioides munsterhjelmi Oldevig, 1958 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2	2017
Hyalonema (Cyliconema) apertum Schulze, 1886 Phylum Porifera > Class Hexactinellida	35	2015

Data providers

Name	Records
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	3,471
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	3,471
Duke University	2,208
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	1,694
University of Alaska Fairbanks - School of Fisheries and Oceans	1,405
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences	1,391
WCS Canada	1,045
Hokkaido University	1,021
Biodiversity Center of Japan, Ministry of the Environment	896
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	892