Chile: all

Statistics

Occurrence records 171,035
Species level 117,462
Species 4,686
Taxa 6,373
Datasets 233
Time range 1822 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 405
No WoRMS match 3,871
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 6,738
No accepted name available 5,181

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 154,338 143
eventDate 14,320 0
maximumDepthInMeters 88,990 369
minimumDepthInMeters 80,972 80
occurrenceStatus 132,929 0
scientificName 935 0
scientificNameID 7,251 1,411

Spatial issues

Records on land 18,973
More than 20 km from shore 1
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 12,814

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Thalassarche melanophris (Temminck, 1828)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
18,693
Thalassarche chrysostoma (Forster, 1785) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
9,250
Bacteria
7,850
Mirounga leonina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
4,317
Arctocephalus gazella (Peters, 1875)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
4,272
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
2,731
Planctomycetaceae
Phylum Planctomycetes > Class Planctomycetacia
2,175
Macrocystis pyrifera (Linnaeus) C.Agardh, 1820
Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae
2,066
Desulfobacteraceae
Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Deltaproteobacteria
2,008
Lessonia trabeculata Villouta & Santelices, 1986
Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae
1,994

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Fregetta tropica (Gould, 1844)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1 2023
Phocoena spinipinnis (Burmeister, 1865) NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
1 2020
Pterodroma mollis (Gould, 1844)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
2 2019
Arctocephalus australis (Zimmermann, 1783)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
1 2019
Pelecanoides urinatrix (Gmelin, 1789)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
2 2019
Ulva lactuca Linnaeus, 1753
Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Ulvophyceae
12 2018
Ulva intestinalis Linnaeus, 1753
Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Ulvophyceae
6 2018
Capreolia implexa Guiry & Womersley, 1993
Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae
19 2018
Pyropia orbicularis M.E.Ramírez, L.Contreras Porcia & M.-L.Guillemin, 2014
Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Bangiophyceae
25 2018
Jehlius cirratus (Darwin, 1854)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Thecostraca
47 2018