Makassar Strait - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Makassar Strait

Statistics

Occurrence records	4,571
Species level	4,119
Species	1,354
Taxa	1,510
Datasets	79
Time range	1758 - 2020

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	13
No WoRMS match	99
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	2
No accepted name available	19

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	2,774	44
eventDate	1,768	0
maximumDepthInMeters	2,458	27
minimumDepthInMeters	2,482	0
occurrenceStatus	1,431	0
scientificName	46	0
scientificNameID	753	16

Spatial issues

Records on land	110
More than 20 km from shore	14
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	364

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Naturalis Invertebrate specimens from marine expeditions Published 2025-03-20	584
Diversity of the Indo-Pacific (DIPnet) Published	536
Asia-Pacific Dataset Published 2024-06-14	441
Benthic species from the tropical Pacific surrounding New Caledonia Published 2025-03-20	429
Hexacorallians of the world Published 2020-06-09	266
The echinoderm collection (IE) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris) Published 2025-03-20	218
Queensland Museum Corals Published 2023-06-28	204
Seagrass records of the COREMAP-CTI Project Published	202
Global benthic biogeographical regions and macroecological drivers for ophiuroids [Data set] Published 2023-11-30	180
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	172

Distribution

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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	146
Culcita novaeguineae Müller & Troschel, 1842 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea	102
Thalassia hemprichii (Ehrenberg) Ascherson, 1871 Phylum Tracheophyta > Class Magnoliopsida	97
Tridacna crocea Lamarck, 1819 Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia	75
Haptosquilla pulchella (Miers, 1880) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	74
Enhalus acoroides (Linnaeus f.) Royle, 1839 Phylum Tracheophyta > Class Magnoliopsida	69
Linckia laevigata (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea	56
Cymodocea rotundata Ascherson & Schweinfurth, 1870 Phylum Tracheophyta > Class Magnoliopsida	53
Tridacna maxima (Röding, 1798) Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia	32
Acropora muricata (Linnaeus, 1758) EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	30

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Numenius madagascariensis (Linnaeus, 1766) EN Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	2	2020
Calidris ferruginea (Pontoppidan, 1763) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	3	2018
Limosa lapponica (Linnaeus, 1758) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	1	2017
Calidris tenuirostris (Horsfield, 1821) EN Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	1	2017
Calidris ruficollis (Pallas, 1776) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	11	2016
Myra fugax (Fabricius, 1798) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2013
Lupocyclus philippinensis Nauck, 1880 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2013
Arcania undecimspinosa De Haan, 1841 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2013
Phalangipus hystrix (Miers, 1886) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2013
Arcania gracilis Henderson, 1893 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2	2013

Data providers

Name	Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	801
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	626
National Museum of Natural History - Naturalis	584
Naturalis Biodiversity Center	584
Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis; National Museum of Natural History - Naturalis	584
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	546
Diversity of the Indo-Pacific Network	536
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	452
Frontier Research Center for Global Change/JAMSTEC	441
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Centre de Nouméa	429