Insular Pacific-Hawaiian - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Insular Pacific-Hawaiian

Statistics

Occurrence records	962,931
Species level	842,382
Species	5,047
Taxa	7,607
Datasets	204
Time range	1838 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	2,678
No WoRMS match	2,883
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	3,000
No accepted name available	1,416

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	217,979	289,352
eventDate	27,817	0
maximumDepthInMeters	394,838	1,954
minimumDepthInMeters	394,958	1,126
occurrenceStatus	221,434	0
scientificName	759	0
scientificNameID	22,128	1,281

Spatial issues

Records on land	7,190
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	22,059

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Minke whale localized acoustic detections off Kauai Published 2022-07-01	223,731
NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Ecosystem Sciences Division, National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Stratified random surveys (StRS) of reef fish in the U.S. Pacific Islands Published 2021-08-25	201,673
NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Ecosystem Science Division Coral Reef Ecosystem Program, Rapid Ecological Assessments of Fish Belt Transect Surveys (BLT) at Coral Reef Sites across the Pacific Ocean from 2000 to 2009 Published 2023-01-27	97,713
NOAA Deep-Sea Coral Research and Technology Program Published 2025-02-05	84,811
CRED Rapid Ecological Assessments of Coral Population in the Pacific Ocean 2007-2010 Published	77,329
Fin whale localized acoustic detections off Kauai 2011-2017 Published 2021-04-24	50,034
CRED Rapid Ecological Assessment of Benthic Habitat Cover in the Pacific Ocean 2005-2010 Published	42,591
Happywhale - Humpback whale in North Pacific Ocean Published 2025-03-17	25,823
Marine data from the Bernice P. Bishop Museum Published 2023-03-20	22,365
CRED Rapid Ecological Assessment of Invertebrate in the Pacific Ocean Published	22,149

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa

Scientific name	Records
Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	223,739
Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	50,037
Porites lobata Dana, 1846 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	31,596
Thalassoma duperrey (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	28,570
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	27,425
Montipora capitata (Dana, 1846) EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	14,499
Ctenochaetus strigosus (Bennett, 1828) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	12,231
Porites compressa Dana, 1846 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	10,949
Chlorurus perspicillatus (Steindachner, 1879) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	9,395
Acanthurus nigrofuscus (Forsskål, 1775) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	9,336

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	2022
Aldrovandia affinis (Günther, 1877) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2021
Spectrunculus grandis (Günther, 1877) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	4	2021
Acanthonus armatus Günther, 1878 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2021
Cataetyx hawaiiensis Gosline, 1954 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2021
Chaunacops coloratus (Garman, 1899) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	6	2021
Calyptrophora lyra Cairns, 2018 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	1	2021
Narella merga Cairns, 2018 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	13	2021
Advhena magnifica Castello-Branco, Collins & Hajdu, 2020 Phylum Porifera > Class Hexactinellida	13	2021
Caulophacus (Caulodiscus) iocasicus Gong & Li, 2023 Phylum Porifera > Class Hexactinellida	2	2021

Data providers

Name	Records
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	401,605
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	399,167
Duke University	317,984
Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System	311,474
Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific	279,739
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	187,310
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Dole Street Office	161,982
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	84,811
Northern Gulf Institute (a NOAA Cooperative Institute)	84,811
Happywhale	25,846