Greenland Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records 66,150
Species level 47,451
Species 1,652
Taxa 2,134
Datasets 156
Time range 1876 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 326
No WoRMS match 3,471
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 252
No accepted name available 710

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 68,076 501
eventDate 10,012 0
maximumDepthInMeters 44,816 60
minimumDepthInMeters 19,308 89
occurrenceStatus 9,730 0
scientificName 41 0
scientificNameID 9,613 1,533

Spatial issues

Records on land 17
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 5,953

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (Ehrenberg, 1861)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
7,492
Turborotalita quinqueloba (Natland, 1938)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
3,337
Neogloboquadrina incompta (Cifelli, 1961)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
1,387
Porifera Grant, 1836
Phylum Porifera
1,276
Demospongiae Sollas, 1885
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
1,186
Fulmarus glacialis (Linnaeus, 1761)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1,066
Cibicides Montfort, 1808
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
983
Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
722
Calanus finmarchicus (Gunnerus, 1770)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
701
Calanus hyperboreus Krøyer, 1838
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
599

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Aegiochus arctica (Lütken, 1859)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2023
Ammodytes marinus Raitt, 1934
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2022
Lycodes luetkenii Collett, 1880
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2020
Puffinus griseus (Gmelin, 1789)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
20 2020
Puffinus puffinus (Brünnich, 1764)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
2 2020
Eutrigla gurnardus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2020
Oceanapia robusta (Bowerbank, 1866)
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
1 2019
Tentorium semisuberites (Schmidt, 1870)
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
11 2019
Forcepia (Forcepia) thielei Lundbeck, 1905
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
2 2019
Asbestopluma (Asbestopluma) furcata Lundbeck, 1905
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
17 2018

Data providers

Name Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 32,159
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel 10,520
University of Bergen 8,467
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research 8,052
The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 5,667
University of Alaska Fairbanks - School of Fisheries and Oceans 5,523
Institute of Marine Research 4,256
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington 4,104
U.S. Geological Survey HQ 4,104
British Oceanographic Data Centre 4,002