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Tasman Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records	9,545,111
Species level	2,081,705
Species	19,038
Taxa	25,345
Datasets	433
Time range	1770 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	2,838
No WoRMS match	1,415,185
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	129,349
No accepted name available	106,503

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	375,882	344
eventDate	119,859	0
maximumDepthInMeters	903,766	839
minimumDepthInMeters	893,559	836
occurrenceStatus	91,674	0
scientificName	6,801	0
scientificNameID	1,565,644	6,257

Spatial issues

Records on land	189,157
More than 20 km from shore	208
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	90,757

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Marine Microbes from the Port Hacking National Reference Station (NRS), New South Wales, Australia (2012-2020) Published 2022-08-03	2,547,727
Marine Microbes from the Maria Island National Reference Station (NRS), Tasmania, Australia (2012-2021) Published 2022-06-24	2,302,111
Marine Microbes from RV Investigator voyage IN2016_V04, Australia (2016) Published 2022-06-28	1,835,670
Marine Microbes from RV Investigator voyage IN2015_V03, Australia (2015) Published 2022-06-24	278,008
IMOS - Animal Tracking Facility - Acoustic Tracking - Quality Controlled Detections (2007 -2021) Published 2022-06-08	218,328
Marine Microbes from RV Southern Surveyor voyage SS2010_V09, Australia (2010) Published 2022-06-25	144,926
New Zealand research tagging database Published 2018-08-08	139,927
UNESCO eDNA expedition in Lord Howe Island Group (Australia): January 2023 Published 2024-12-08	137,187
OEH Atlas of NSW Wildlife, - marine records Australia (1770 - 2017) Published 2022-06-07	126,496
New Zealand fish and squid distributions from research bottom trawls 1964-2008 Published 2020-02-14	118,096

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	1,649,315
Thermoplasmata Phylum Euryarchaeota > Class Thermoplasmata	799,085
Bacteria	623,693
Nitrosopumilaceae Phylum Thaumarchaeota > Class Thaumarchaeota incertae sedis	457,136
Cyanobacteria Stanier ex Cavalier-Smith, 2002 Phylum Cyanobacteria	443,992
Syndiniales Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	384,659
Pseudomonadales Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	289,868
Flavobacteriaceae (Reichenbach, 1992) emend. Bernardet, Nakagawa & Holmes, 2002 Phylum Bacteroidetes > Class Flavobacteria	228,220
Flavobacteriales Phylum Bacteroidetes > Class Flavobacteria	168,193
Eudyptula minor (Forster, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	156,384

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Velamen parallelum (Fol, 1869) Phylum Ctenophora > Class Tentaculata	1	2023
Aspidosiphon (Paraspidosiphon) laevis Quatrefages, 1866 Phylum Annelida	2	2023
Phaeodactylum tricornutum Bohlin, 1897 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	2	2023
Girella fimbriata (McCulloch, 1920) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2023
Neoporphyra haitanensis (T.J.Chang & B.F.Zheng) J.Brodie & L.-E.Yang, 2020 Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Bangiophyceae	2	2023
Coris aygula Lacepède, 1801 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	206	2022
Kyphosus pacificus Sakai & Nakabo, 2004 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	155	2022
Prasinoderma coloniale T.Hasegawa & Chihara, 1996 Phylum Prasinodermatophyta > Class Prasinodermatophyceae	233	2022
Colpomenia claytoniae S.M.Boo, K.M.Lee, G.Y.Cho & W.Nelson, 2011 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	177	2022
Chloropicon sieburthii Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem, 2017 Phylum Chlorophyta	181	2022

Data providers

Name	Records
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	8,702,575
University of Newcastle	4,888,500
University of Technology, Sydney	2,262,594
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	811,268
National Institute for Water & Atmospheric Research	393,516
University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies	225,659
Integrated Marine Observing System	218,328
Australian Museum	140,291
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization	137,791
Giffith University, Australia	137,187