Somali Coastal Current - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Somali Coastal Current

Statistics

Occurrence records	71,135
Species level	35,006
Species	4,681
Taxa	5,999
Datasets	185
Time range	1816 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	361
No WoRMS match	812
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	100
No accepted name available	2,597

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
basisOfRecord	3	0
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	66,303	1,182
eventDate	16,955	0
maximumDepthInMeters	44,836	123
minimumDepthInMeters	44,215	0
occurrenceStatus	15,003	0
scientificName	153	0
scientificNameID	4,559	118

Spatial issues

Records on land	5,151
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	571

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	17,684
Taxonomically comprehensive assessment of biodiversity of animal plankton throughout the world ocean Published	5,169
Nematoda from Kenya and Zanzibar Published 2025-03-20	3,403
Ecoscope tuna bycatch observer data Published 2025-03-20	2,982
Spatial and temporal ichthyofauna community of a tropical mangrove Bay (Gazi Bay, Kenya) sampled between 1994 and 1996 Published 2025-03-20	2,796
An experimental approach to study epi-and infauna of mangrove forests in Gazi Bay (Kenya) between August 1992 and July 1993 Published 2025-03-20	2,722
Study of epifauna and meiobenthos by means of cage experiments in a Ceriops tagal and Avicennia marina mangrove at Gazi Bay (Kenya) in August and September 1992 Published 2025-03-20	2,479
Ecoscope Observation Database Published 2025-03-20	2,456
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Published 2025-03-18	2,271
Study of epifauna and meiobenthos using field exclusion experiments in a Ceriops tagal and Avicennia marina mangrove at Gazi Bay (Kenya) in August and September 1992 Published 2025-03-20	2,183

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
Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,867
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1,671
Nematoda Phylum Nematoda	1,215
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU Phylum Chordata	999
Fiona Alder & Hancock, 1853 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	950
Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) EN Phylum Chordata	947
Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	878
Polychaeta Grube, 1850 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	731
Oligochaeta Grube, 1850 Phylum Annelida > Class Clitellata	723
Rotifera Cuvier, 1817 Phylum Rotifera	704

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Sula sula (Linnaeus, 1766) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	6	2023
Dendrodoris fumata (Rüppell & Leuckart, 1830) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1	2018
Cladiella australis (Macfadyen, 1936) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	2	2018
Halgerda wasinensis Eliot, 1904 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	5	2018
Lumnitzera racemosa Willd. Phylum Tracheophyta > Class Magnoliopsida	2	2018
Xylocarpus moluccensis (Lam.) M.Roem. Phylum Tracheophyta > Class Magnoliopsida	2	2018
Asteronotus spongicolus Gosliner & Á. Valdés, 2002 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	2	2018
Phyllidiella meandrina (Pruvot-Fol, 1957) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	3	2018
Tenellia lugubris (Bergh, 1870) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	3	2018
Tenellia minor (Rudman, 1981) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	2	2018

Data providers

Name	Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	26,676
Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute	20,326
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	17,775
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	17,774
Universiteit Gent, Marine Biology research group	16,440
Universiteit Gent, Faculteit Wetenschap	9,132
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement	7,731
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	7,313
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	5,169
Vrije Universiteit Brussel	3,501