Arabian Sea

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Statistics

Occurrence records 616,213
Species level 273,193
Species 11,065
Taxa 13,815
Datasets 229
Time range 1706 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 405
No WoRMS match 9,581
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 3,836
No accepted name available 36,798

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 605,532 3,967
eventDate 50,181 0
maximumDepthInMeters 183,496 426
minimumDepthInMeters 117,990 335
occurrenceStatus 67,264 0
scientificName 244 0
scientificNameID 21,411 2,179

Spatial issues

Records on land 6,483
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 4,447

Top datasets

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		34,226
Fiona Alder & Hancock, 1853
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda 		32,868
Oncaea Philippi, 1843
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		26,791
Sagitta Quoy & Gaimard, 1827
Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea 		22,543
Oikopleura Mertens, 1830
Phylum Chordata > Class Appendicularia 		17,226
Corycaeus Dana, 1849
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		15,240
Ostracoda Latreille, 1802
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Ostracoda 		14,606
Polychaeta Grube, 1850
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta 		10,048
Paracalanus parvus (Claus, 1863)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		9,150
Clausocalanus arcuicornis (Dana, 1849-1852)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		8,947

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Audulla sindhu Thacker, Myers & Trivedi, 2025
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca 		1 2024
Micromonas pusilla (Butcher) Manton & Parke, 1960
Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Mamiellophyceae 		3 2023
Bellerochea polymorpha Hargraves & Guillard, 1974
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		1 2023
Anaulus australis Drebes & Schulz, 1989
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		1 2023
Sinularia brassica May, 1898
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia 		27 2022
Hyotissa numisma (Lamarck, 1819)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia 		13 2022
Halgerda wasinensis Eliot, 1904
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda 		9 2022
Staurothyone rosacea (Semper, 1869)
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea 		11 2022
Austruca iranica (Pretzmann, 1971)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca 		17 2022
Sansibia claereboudti Samimi-Namin, Benayahu & McFadden, 2022
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia 		13 2022

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