Pacific Central-American Coastal - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Pacific Central-American Coastal

Statistics

Occurrence records	415,000
Species level	211,628
Species	6,529
Taxa	9,140
Datasets	288
Time range	1842 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	3,887
No WoRMS match	7,509
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	1,184
No accepted name available	126,391

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	421,207	2,869
eventDate	23,650	0
maximumDepthInMeters	329,785	694
minimumDepthInMeters	276,144	643
occurrenceStatus	61,045	0
scientificName	1,465	0
scientificNameID	26,214	2,128

Spatial issues

Records on land	129,744
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	31,517

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
UNESCO eDNA expedition in Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection (Panama), February 2023 Published 2024-12-08	140,159
UNESCO eDNA expedition in Archipiélago de Revillagigedo (Mexico): April 2023 Published 2024-12-08	40,657
Datos de monitoreo asociados al indicador de condición tendencias para arrecifes coralinos - ICTac Published 2022-03-07	38,038
PANGAEA - Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Published 2025-03-20	22,685
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	19,945
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	13,991
Sistema de Monitoreo de Arrecifes Coralinos - SIMAC: Salud Coralina Published 2021-10-26	11,784
Marine and Coastal Research Institute - INVEMAR, Colombia,IABIN Published	8,246
Sistema de Monitoreo de Arrecifes Coralinos - SIMAC: Estructura Coralina Published 2024-09-19	7,674
Sistema de Monitoreo de Arrecifes Coralinos - SIMAC: Abundancia de peces arrecifales Published 2022-02-14	7,254

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
Biota incertae sedis	121,198
Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus, 1758) EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	25,755
Chordata Haeckel, 1874 Phylum Chordata	13,600
Pocillopora capitata Verrill, 1864 EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	12,276
Animalia	11,939
Florideophyceae Cronquist, 1960 Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae	11,903
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	11,840
Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829) VU Phylum Chordata	2,165
Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	2,119
Actinopteri Phylum Chordata	1,852

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Balaenoptera brydei Olsen, 1913 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	2024
Tylosurus acus (Lacepède, 1803) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	467	2023
Micromonas pusilla (Butcher) Manton & Parke, 1960 Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Mamiellophyceae	753	2023
Haemulon aurolineatum Cuvier, 1830 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	398	2023
Eucinostomus melanopterus (Bleeker, 1863) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	119	2023
Dolichomastix tenuilepis J.Throndsen & A.Zingone, 1997 Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Mamiellophyceae	151	2023
Pelagomonas calceolata R.A.Andersen & G.Saunders, 1993 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Pelagophyceae	167	2023
Bellerochea polymorpha Hargraves & Guillard, 1974 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	195	2023
Hemiarma marina Shiratori & K.Ishida, 2016 Phylum Cryptophyta > Class Cryptophyceae	112	2023
Micromonas commoda Baren, Bachy & Worden, 2016 Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Mamiellophyceae	649	2023

Data providers

Name	Records
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization	185,599
UNESCO-IOC	180,816
UNESCO-WHC	180,816
Dirección de Areas Protegidas y Biodiversidad	140,159
Estación Científica Coiba AIP	140,159
Sistema de Información sobre Biodiversidad de Colombia - SiB Colombia	73,873
Fundación Malpelo y Otros Ecosistemas Marinos	71,993
Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia	65,127
Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras	64,478
Universidad del Valle	63,363