South China Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records 181,640
Species level 147,022
Species 10,076
Taxa 12,396
Datasets 192
Time range 1758 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 487
No WoRMS match 8,581
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 60
No accepted name available 1,321

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 165,065 2,121
eventDate 87,956 0
maximumDepthInMeters 158,476 167
minimumDepthInMeters 99,393 5
occurrenceStatus 96,648 0
scientificName 1,877 0
scientificNameID 27,967 234

Spatial issues

Records on land 3,456
More than 20 km from shore 471
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 2,201

Top datasets

Dataset Records
PANGAEA - Data from the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
Published 2025-03-20
20,977
NCOS1959_Crustacea
Published 2024-11-10
15,810
FishNet2 Marine Data
Published 2023-12-19
13,242
PANGAEA - Data from international marine global change study (IMAGES)
Published 2025-03-20
11,768
PANGAEA - Data from various sources
Published 2025-03-20
11,222
PANGAEA - Data from Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
Published 2025-03-20
9,558
Asia-Pacific Dataset
Published 2024-06-14
8,851
NCOS1959_Mollusca
Published 2018-11-12
8,339
Biodiversity Research Museum, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Published
6,216
NCOS1959_Echinodermata
Published
4,378

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
Globigerinoides ruber (d'Orbigny, 1839)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
2,311
Trilobatus sacculifer (Brady, 1877)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
2,293
Globigerinita glutinata (Egger, 1893)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
1,986
Pulleniatina obliquiloculata (Parker & Jones, 1865)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
1,841
Neogloboquadrina dutertrei (d'Orbigny, 1839)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
1,810
Globigerinella siphonifera (d'Orbigny, 1839)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
1,809
Globigerina bulloides d'Orbigny, 1826
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
1,759
Orbulina universa d'Orbigny, 1839
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
1,691
Globigerinella calida (Parker, 1962)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
1,559
Globigerinoides conglobatus (Brady, 1879)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
1,444

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Mystus wolffii (Bleeker, 1851)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2023
Vespicula trachinoides (Cuvier, 1829)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
5 2023
Pseudobrachyamblyopus odontamblyopsis Ba, 2023
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2023
Cabillus wui Ba, 2023
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2023
Oneirophanta lucerna Xiao & Zhang, 2024
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea
1 2023
Polymixia melanostoma Fan, Su, Lin, Chang & Lin, 2024
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2023
Gerres limbatus Cuvier, 1830
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
5 2022
Mugilogobius tigrinus Larson, 2001
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
4 2022
Hemigobius mingi (Herre, 1936)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
3 2022
Phenacostethus smithi Myers, 1928
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
6 2022

Data providers

Name Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 56,683
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 49,013
Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 39,169
ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity 28,998
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute 13,242
University of Bremen Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences 11,768
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel 9,558
Frontier Research Center for Global Change/JAMSTEC 8,851
Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia Sinica 8,578
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure 7,601