Celtic-Biscay Shelf

Statistics

Occurrence records 10,539,093
Species level 7,620,883
Species 9,540
Taxa 13,989
Datasets 434
Time range 1743 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 14,084
No WoRMS match 352,359
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 174,139
No accepted name available 192,487

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 7,620,748 2,608,789
eventDate 47,118 0
maximumDepthInMeters 5,549,926 1
minimumDepthInMeters 6,507,532 2
occurrenceStatus 1,118,434 0
scientificName 224 0
scientificNameID 28,056 333,405

Spatial issues

Records on land 170,685
More than 20 km from shore 678
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 48,862

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Morus bassanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
231,707
Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius, 1791)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
183,630
Fulmarus glacialis (Linnaeus, 1761)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
177,550
Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
151,949
Uria aalge (Pontoppidan, 1763)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
139,328
Merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
133,047
Fungi
132,866
Merlangius merlangus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
119,574
Scomber scombrus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
114,607
Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
114,116

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Beroe gracilis Künne, 1939
Phylum Ctenophora > Class Nuda
4 2023
Helgicirrha cari (Haeckel, 1864)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
2 2023
Cottus gobio Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
5 2023
Lovenella assimilis (Browne, 1905)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
6 2022
Pseudodiaptomus marinus Sato, 1913
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
26 2022
Stauridiosarsia ophiogaster (Haeckel, 1879)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
2 2022
Dicladia mitra J.W.Bailey, 1856
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
10 2021
Pseudo-nitzschia galaxiae N.Lundholm & Ø.Moestrup, 2002
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
16 2021
Turritopsis polycirrha (Keferstein, 1862)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
13 2021
Anabathron ascensum Hedley, 1907
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
13 2021

Data providers

Name Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 4,843,566
The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 4,181,631
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea 2,753,988
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer, IFREMER, Centre de Brest 1,128,078
Joint Nature Conservation Committee 873,781
Duke University 797,861
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science 752,483
Marine Institute Ireland 745,728
DASSH 735,421
The Marine Biological Association 734,940