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Coral Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records	6,360,543
Species level	1,853,592
Species	25,032
Taxa	32,002
Datasets	407
Time range	1770 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	4,062
No WoRMS match	822,796
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	97,631
No accepted name available	58,321

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	352,850	16,736
eventDate	269,620	0
maximumDepthInMeters	881,716	2,162
minimumDepthInMeters	885,507	1,865
occurrenceStatus	183,885	0
scientificName	11,471	0
scientificNameID	931,705	3,107

Spatial issues

Records on land	53,613
More than 20 km from shore	478
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	33,934

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Marine Microbes from the North Stradbroke Island National Reference Station (NRS), Queensland, Australia (2012-2020) Published 2023-07-18	2,550,420
Marine Microbes from the Yongala National Reference Station (NRS), Queensland, Australia (2015-2020) Published 2022-08-02	1,040,892
IMOS - Animal Tracking Facility - Acoustic Tracking - Quality Controlled Detections (2007 -2021) Published 2022-06-08	556,446
Marine Microbes from RV Investigator voyage IN2016_V04, Australia (2016) Published 2022-06-28	344,462
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) Long-term Monitoring Program: Visual Census Fish Data (Great Barrier Reef), Australia (1992 to present) Published 2022-06-08	168,620
Marine Microbes from RV Southern Surveyor voyage SS2010_V09, Australia (2010) Published 2022-06-25	116,715
Marine Microbes from RV Southern Surveyor voyage SS2013_T03, Australia (2013) Published 2022-06-25	100,611
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	73,881
Marine Microbes from RV Southern Surveyor voyage SS2012_T07, Australia (2012) Published 2022-06-25	68,019
Australian Museum Malacology Collection - Marine records Published 2022-06-08	67,275

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	1,005,971
Thermoplasmata Phylum Euryarchaeota > Class Thermoplasmata	471,637
Cyanobacteria Stanier ex Cavalier-Smith, 2002 Phylum Cyanobacteria	364,986
Bacteria	286,972
Syndiniales Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	228,276
Pseudomonadales Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	175,120
Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	156,464
Nitrosopumilaceae Phylum Thaumarchaeota > Class Thaumarchaeota incertae sedis	147,704
Flavobacteriaceae (Reichenbach, 1992) emend. Bernardet, Nakagawa & Holmes, 2002 Phylum Bacteroidetes > Class Flavobacteria	147,001
Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Bleeker, 1856) EN Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	118,520

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Phaeocystis pouchetii (Hariot) Lagerheim, 1896 Phylum Haptophyta > Class Coccolithophyceae	33	2023
Cyclothone signata Garman, 1899 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	16	2023
Callyspongia (Cladochalina) plicifera (Lamarck, 1814) Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	20	2023
Myripristis amaena (Castelnau, 1873) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	10	2023
Pseudo-nitzschia sabit S.T. Teng, H.C. Lim, P.T. Lim & C.P. Leaw, 2015 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	24	2023
Chloropicon roscoffensis Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem, 2017 Phylum Chlorophyta	11	2023
Chloroparvula pacifica Lopes dos Santos, Noël & Eikrem, 2017 Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Chloropicophyceae	13	2023
Chloropicon sieburthii Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem, 2017 Phylum Chlorophyta	12	2023
Platybelone platyura (Bennett, 1832) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	11	2023
Paramoeba branchiphila (Dyková, B.F.Nowak, Crosbie, I.Fiala, H.Pecková, M.B.Adams, Macháčková & Dvořáková) Feehan, Johnson-Mackinnon, Scheibling, Lauzon & A.G.B.Simpson, 2013 Phylum Amoebozoa > Class Discosea	11	2023

Data providers

Name	Records
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	5,610,479
University of Newcastle	3,591,312
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	1,128,879
University of Technology, Sydney	654,459
Integrated Marine Observing System	556,446
Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville	329,034
Australian Museum	168,012
James Cook University, Townsville	90,014
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	73,881
Queensland Museum	66,030