Timor Sea - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Timor Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records	610,379
Species level	113,883
Species	5,371
Taxa	8,696
Datasets	177
Time range	1840 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	1,491
No WoRMS match	143,124
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	14,618
No accepted name available	4,566

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	135,747	45
eventDate	14,482	0
maximumDepthInMeters	77,966	29
minimumDepthInMeters	76,876	0
occurrenceStatus	9,329	0
scientificName	482	0
scientificNameID	160,504	416

Spatial issues

Records on land	8,793
More than 20 km from shore	129
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	4,707

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Marine Microbes from the Darwin Harbour National Reference Station (NRS), Northern Territory, Australia (2015-2020) Published 2022-06-22	483,105
Fauna Atlas N.T. - marine records, Northern Territory, Australia Published 2022-06-08	11,879
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Malacology Collection - marine records Published 2023-06-28	11,498
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Annelid Collection Published 2023-06-28	9,766
CSIRO, Cruises, Vertebrate and Invertebrate Fishery Bycatch, North Australia, 1997 Published 2022-11-11	9,180
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	7,655
NESP A12: Northern Australia threatened species, Australia (1905-2020) Published 2022-11-14	7,618
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Ichthyology Collection - Marine records Published 2023-06-28	6,562
eBird Australia - marine records (1901-2019) Published 2022-06-08	5,994
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Crustacean Collection Published 2023-06-28	4,189

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
Alphaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Alphaproteobacteria	88,988
Cyanobacteria Stanier ex Cavalier-Smith, 2002 Phylum Cyanobacteria	54,982
Thermoplasmata Phylum Euryarchaeota > Class Thermoplasmata	44,983
Syndiniales Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	24,800
Amoebophrya Koeppen, 1894 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	14,142
Pseudomonadales Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	13,983
Bacteria	13,795
Dinophyceae Fritsch, 1927 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	13,739
Gammaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	11,116
Flavobacteriaceae (Reichenbach, 1992) emend. Bernardet, Nakagawa & Holmes, 2002 Phylum Bacteroidetes > Class Flavobacteria	10,806

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Undinula vulgaris (Dana, 1849-1852) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	4	2022
Lucicutia flavicornis (Claus, 1863) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	3	2022
Macrosetella gracilis (Dana, 1848) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	4	2022
Corycaeus crassiusculus Dana, 1849-1852 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	3	2022
Copilia mirabilis Dana, 1849-1852 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	3	2022
Thalassionema nitzschioides (Grunow) Mereschkowsky, 1902 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	4	2022
Farranula gibbula (Giesbrecht, 1891) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	7	2022
Subeucalanus dentatus (Scott A., 1909) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	6	2022
Chaetoceros messanense Castracane, 1875 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	10	2022
Tripos vultur (Cleve) F.Gómez, 2013 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	4	2022

Data providers

Name	Records
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	596,145
University of Newcastle	483,105
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	46,464
Museum and Art Gallery, Northern Territory	24,167
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory	14,252
Northern Territory Department of Land Resource Management	11,879
Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville	9,954
University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies	9,258
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	7,655
Charles Darwin University (CDU)	7,618