California Current

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Statistics

Occurrence records 2,423,952
Species level 1,272,494
Species 8,395
Taxa 12,879
Datasets 304
Time range 1840 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 2,343
No WoRMS match 54,062
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 11,041
No accepted name available 214,215

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 1,300,839 128,151
eventDate 78,103 0
maximumDepthInMeters 709,196 28,949
minimumDepthInMeters 677,610 28,932
occurrenceStatus 498,911 0
scientificName 6,034 0
scientificNameID 123,942 74,677

Spatial issues

Records on land 73,346
More than 20 km from shore 1
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 140,775

Top datasets

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Porifera Grant, 1836
Phylum Porifera 		187,641
Biota incertae sedis
134,616
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia 		71,956
Pisces
Phylum Chordata 		62,237
Pennatuloidea Ehrenberg, 1834
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia 		37,537
Heteropolypus ritteri (Nutting, 1909)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia 		33,480
Animalia
33,112
Larus occidentalis Audubon, 1839
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves 		27,341
Macrocystis pyrifera (Linnaeus) C.Agardh, 1820
Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae 		27,041
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (Walbaum, 1792)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		25,875

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Lontra canadensis Schreber, 1777
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia 		1 2023
Suberites agaricus Turner, 2024
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae 		3 2023
Corallina confusa Yendo, 1902
Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae 		589 2022
Bossiella plumosa (Manza) P.C.Silva, 1957
Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae 		695 2022
Mazzaella splendens (Setchell & N.L.Gardner) Fredericq, 1994
Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae 		924 2022
Smithora naiadum (C.L.Anderson) Hollenberg, 1959
Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Compsopogonophyceae 		431 2022
Leathesia marina (Lyngbye) Decaisne, 1842
Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae 		680 2022
Bossiella frondescens (Postels & Ruprecht) E.Y.Dawson, 1964
Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae 		1,284 2022
Nusuttodinium poecilochroum (J.Larsen) Y.Takano & T.Horiguchi, 2014
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae 		808 2022
Chloroparvula pacifica Lopes dos Santos, Noël & Eikrem, 2017
Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Chloropicophyceae 		597 2022

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