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Statistics

Occurrence records 128,932
Species level 91,799
Species 4,470
Taxa 6,408
Datasets 139
Time range 1849 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 537
No WoRMS match 6,232
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 519
No accepted name available 2,748

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 121,543 112
eventDate 94,311 0
maximumDepthInMeters 112,464 389
minimumDepthInMeters 111,359 378
occurrenceStatus 98,775 0
scientificName 486 0
scientificNameID 24,554 1,346

Spatial issues

Records on land 6,071
More than 20 km from shore 409
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 508

Top datasets

Dataset Records
NCOS1959_Crustacea
Published 2024-11-10 		23,721
NCOS1959_Mollusca
Published 2018-11-12 		13,153
World Ocean Database 2009
Published 2020-11-17 		7,729
NCOS
Published 		7,160
National Comprehensive Oceanographic Survey (NCOS) - Polychaeta
Published 2024-11-10 		7,160
Tracking of Far Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis) along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF) (2017-2021)
Published 2022-12-08 		6,731
NCOS1959_Echinodermata
Published 		6,682
JODC Dataset
Published 2024-06-14 		4,175
FishNet2 Marine Data
Published 2023-12-19 		3,653
Hong Kong Marine Biodiversity Database - SWIMS - Baseline Evaluation of Hong Kong's Rocky Shore Biodiversity
Published 2024-04-15 		2,968

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Numenius madagascariensis (Linnaeus, 1766) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves 		6,731
Lumbrineris Blainville, 1828
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta 		3,897
Polychaeta Grube, 1850
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta 		2,416
Glycera unicornis Lamarck, 1818
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta 		2,110
Maldanidae Malmgren, 1867
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta 		1,798
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata 		1,712
Sternaspis scutata (Ranzani, 1817)
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta 		1,590
Terebellides stroemii Sars, 1835
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta 		1,418
Eunicidae Berthold, 1827
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta 		1,095
Goniada maculata Örsted, 1843
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta 		1,067

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Pseudobrachyamblyopus odontamblyopsis Ba, 2023
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		1 2023
Cabillus wui Ba, 2023
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		1 2023
Prorocentrum redfieldii Bursa, 1959
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae 		1 2022
Pseudo-nitzschia pungens (Grunow ex Cleve) G.R.Hasle, 1993
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		2 2022
Karenia papilionacea A.J.Haywood & K.A.Steidinger, 2004
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae 		1 2022
Syringidium bicorne Ehrenberg, 1845
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		1 2022
Belbolla octobulba Ban, Sun & Huang, 2023
Phylum Nematoda > Class Enoplea 		1 2022
Ironella gracilis Ban, Sun & Huang, 2023
Phylum Nematoda > Class Enoplea 		1 2022
Oxystomina longiseta Ban, Sun & Huang, 2023
Phylum Nematoda > Class Enoplea 		1 2022
Dichromadora media Liang, Gou & Wang, 2024
Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea 		1 2022

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