Scotian Shelf

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Statistics

Occurrence records 4,327,096
Species level 3,854,292
Species 4,400
Taxa 5,898
Datasets 258
Time range 1865 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 1,347
No WoRMS match 218,569
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 8,629
No accepted name available 21,511

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 4,334,669 4,494
eventDate 382,305 0
maximumDepthInMeters 2,860,705 6,698
minimumDepthInMeters 2,890,704 6,699
occurrenceStatus 836,973 0
scientificName 40,666 0
scientificNameID 57,787 415,473

Spatial issues

Records on land 280,334
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 17,124

Top datasets

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Homarus americanus H. Milne Edwards, 1837
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca 		579,879
Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		313,801
Morus bassanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves 		297,188
Hippoglossoides platessoides (Fabricius, 1780) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		295,848
Gadus morhua Linnaeus, 1758 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		277,568
Merluccius bilinearis (Mitchill, 1814) NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		236,652
Sebastes Cuvier, 1829
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		220,312
Myzopsetta ferruginea (Storer, 1839) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		152,230
Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		99,115
Chionoecetes opilio (Fabricius, 1788)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca 		97,993

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Actinoscyphia aurelia (Stephenson, 1918)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia 		1 2024
Gennadas valens (Smith, 1884)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca 		3 2024
Notostomus elegans A. Milne-Edwards, 1881
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca 		1 2024
Pirsonia diadema Kühn, 1996
33 2022
Hymeniacidon perlevis (Montagu, 1814)
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae 		16 2022
Acrothrix gracilis Kylin, 1907
Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae 		11 2022
Plagiogramma vanheurckii Grunow, 1881
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		12 2022
Pagurus longicarpus Say, 1817
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca 		12 2022
Tintinnopsis cylindrica Daday, 1887
Phylum Ciliophora > Class Oligotrichea 		11 2022
Wahlenbergiella mucosa (Wahlenb. ex Ach.) Gueidan & Thüs, 2009
Phylum Ascomycota > Class Eurotiomycetes 		17 2022

Data providers

Name Records
Fisheries and Oceans Canada 1,558,552
Fisheries and Oceans Canada – Bedford Institute of Oceanography 974,847
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea 759,493
Fishermen and Scientists Research Society 407,582
Université du Québec à Rimouski 290,305
Cégep de Rimouski 282,225
Ocean Tracking Network 244,312
Dalhousie University 243,382
Ocean Tracking Network 243,376
Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada 229,654