Gulf of Thailand

Statistics

Occurrence records 16,141
Species level 11,840
Species 1,825
Taxa 2,342
Datasets 88
Time range 1758 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 67
No WoRMS match 1,330
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 17
No accepted name available 78

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 12,000 9
eventDate 5,949 0
maximumDepthInMeters 10,701 0
minimumDepthInMeters 10,383 0
occurrenceStatus 12,170 0
scientificName 907 0
scientificNameID 7,010 54

Spatial issues

Records on land 1,338
More than 20 km from shore 459
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 79

Top datasets

Dataset Records
CAS Ichthyology (ICH)
Published 2025-03-17
4,907
FishNet2 Marine Data
Published 2023-12-19
4,730
Asia-Pacific Dataset
Published 2024-06-14
2,511
World Ocean Database 2009
Published 2020-11-17
940
Diveboard - Scuba diving citizen science observations
Published 2025-03-20
684
CAS Invertebrate Zoology (IZ)
Published 2025-03-17
504
Queensland Museum Corals
Published 2023-06-28
182
UF Invertebrate Zoology
Published 2024-02-12
145
IndOBIS Dataset (78001-80000)
Published 2021-02-12
137
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections
Published
129

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Halichoeres Rüppell, 1835
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
232
Cephalopholis boenak (Bloch, 1790)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
106
Rhincodon typus Smith, 1828 EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
105
Leiognathidae Gill, 1893
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
105
Upeneus Cuvier, 1829
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
102
Hippocampus kuda Bleeker, 1852 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
101
Chaetodon octofasciatus Bloch, 1787
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
94
Sargocentron rubrum (Forsskål, 1775)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
89
Porifera Grant, 1836
Phylum Porifera
88
Cephalopholis formosa (Shaw, 1812)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
87

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Balaenoptera brydei Olsen, 1913
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
1 2024
Pseudexogone losinensis Plathong, Plathong & Dean, 2024
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1 2022
Calidris ferruginea (Pontoppidan, 1763) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
3 2018
Aricidea (Aricidea) thammapinanae Plathong, Hernández-Alcántara, Harris & Plathong, 2020
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1 2018
Aricidea (Acmira) anusakdii Plathong, Hernández-Alcántara, Harris & Plathong, 2020
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1 2017
Ophiarachnella gorgonia (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea
4 2015
Ophiarachnella infernalis (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea
3 2015
Synaptula reticulata (Semper, 1867)
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea
7 2015
Astropecten javanicus Lutken, 1871
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea
4 2015
Kempella mikado (Kemp & Chopra, 1921)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
3 2015

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