Barents Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records 1,093,747
Species level 903,047
Species 4,138
Taxa 5,709
Datasets 213
Time range 1763 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 784
No WoRMS match 6,373
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 2,608
No accepted name available 9,285

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 1,026,848 306
eventDate 100,683 0
maximumDepthInMeters 196,976 44
minimumDepthInMeters 178,397 79
occurrenceStatus 32,556 0
scientificName 62 0
scientificNameID 21,032 5,926

Spatial issues

Records on land 39,052
More than 20 km from shore 31
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 90,008

Top datasets

Dataset Records
Environmental Monitoring database (MOD) DNV
Published 2023-08-09
301,345
IMR Occurrences of fish from research and rental vessels 2000-2023
Published 2024-09-09
252,270
World Ocean Database 2009
Published 2020-11-17
201,669
SEAPOP NINA
Published 2025-03-20
62,302
MAREANO - Base-line mapping of fauna obtained with grab
Published 2024-09-09
26,678
Phytoplankton from the White Sea, Barents Sea, Norwegian Sea and Arctic Basin 1993-2003
Published 2019-09-04
23,477
IMR Zooplankton Barents Sea
Published 2025-03-20
21,185
Incidental sightings of marine mammals
Published 2025-03-20
20,553
MAREANO - Base-line mapping of epifauna obtained with Beamtrawl
Published 2024-09-09
16,565
WhiteSeaPlankton
Published 2023-01-25
11,946

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Gadus morhua Linnaeus, 1758 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
23,498
Pseudocalanus minutus (Krøyer, 1845)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
22,454
Calanus finmarchicus (Gunnerus, 1770)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
22,442
Metridia longa (Lubbock, 1854)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
20,201
Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
17,856
Hippoglossoides platessoides (Fabricius, 1780) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
17,173
Mallotus villosus (Müller, 1776)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
16,940
Oithona similis Claus, 1866
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
16,715
Uria aalge (Pontoppidan, 1763)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
14,604
Acartia (Acartiura) longiremis (Lilljeborg, 1853)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
13,910

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Enhydra lutris (Linnaeus, 1758) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
2 2023
Labrus mixtus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2022
Leucoraja naevus (Müller & Henle, 1841)
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
1 2021
Euchone rosea Langerhans, 1884
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
2 2021
Syssitomya pourtalesiana P. G. Oliver, 2012
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
2 2021
Apistobranchus typicus (Webster & Benedict, 1887)
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
6 2020
Tintinnidium mucicola (Claparède & Lachmann, 1858) Daday, 1887
Phylum Ciliophora > Class Oligotrichea
6 2020
Lebbeus grandimanus (Bražnikov, 1907)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
8 2020
Spirorbis (Spirorbis) bifurcatus Knight-Jones, 1978
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
6 2020
Lebbeus virentova Nye, Copley, Plouvier & Van Dover, 2013
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
6 2020

Data providers

Name Records
Institute of Marine Research 365,176
DNV 301,345
GBIF Norway 301,345
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington 201,669
U.S. Geological Survey HQ 201,669
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 118,818
University of Alaska Fairbanks - School of Fisheries and Oceans 65,494
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research 62,302
Institute of Marine Research 20,553
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research 14,305