Cape Verde

Statistics

Occurrence records 45,276
Species level 22,623
Species 2,159
Taxa 3,640
Datasets 106
Time range 1837 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 268
No WoRMS match 7,807
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 2,723
No accepted name available 573

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 62,017 271
eventDate 7,994 0
maximumDepthInMeters 42,865 0
minimumDepthInMeters 40,148 0
occurrenceStatus 28,943 0
scientificName 115 0
scientificNameID 17,439 39

Spatial issues

Records on land 434
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 183

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2,437
Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1,246
Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1,029
Alphaproteobacteria
Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Alphaproteobacteria
749
Gammaproteobacteria
Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria
617
Proteobacteria
Phylum Proteobacteria
525
Bacteria
520
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
502
Deltaproteobacteria
Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Deltaproteobacteria
314
Auxis Cuvier, 1829
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
275

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Ophioblennius atlanticus (Valenciennes, 1836)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2022
Parablennius parvicornis (Valenciennes, 1836)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2022
Trachinotus ovatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2022
Diplodus sargus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2022
Abudefduf saxatilis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2022
Myripristis jacobus Cuvier, 1829
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2022
Canthigaster capistrata (Lowe, 1839)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2022
Abudefduf taurus (Müller & Troschel, 1848)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2022
Stegastes imbricatus Jenyns, 1840
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2022
Girella stuebeli Troschel, 1866
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2022

Data providers

Name Records
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure 8,598
European Molecular Biology Laboratory 8,541
MIT 7,980
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton 7,835
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 7,501
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 6,360
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement 5,335
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 5,279
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 4,344
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute 1,553