Gulf of Thailand - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Gulf of Thailand

Statistics

Occurrence records	20,711
Species level	15,975
Species	2,379
Taxa	3,114
Datasets	104
Time range	1758 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	60
No WoRMS match	1,281
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	19
No accepted name available	74

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	13,856	115
eventDate	6,308	0
maximumDepthInMeters	12,106	0
minimumDepthInMeters	11,775	0
occurrenceStatus	13,004	0
scientificName	872	0
scientificNameID	7,270	61

Spatial issues

Records on land	2,568
More than 20 km from shore	51
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	411

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
CAS Ichthyology (ICH) Published 2025-03-24	5,180
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	5,097
Asia-Pacific Dataset Published 2024-06-14	3,512
Diveboard - Scuba diving citizen science observations Published 2025-03-20	1,032
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	860
Fish Collection from the South China Sea Repository and Reference Centre (RRC), Institute of Oceanography and Environment (INOS), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) Published 2024-04-16	566
Fish Collection (2009, 2018 & 2019) (Kemaman & LKIM Kuantan) from the South China Sea Repository and Reference Centre (RRC), Institute of Oceanography and Environment (INOS), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) Published 2024-09-11	514
CAS Invertebrate Zoology (IZ) Published 2025-03-24	486
Queensland Museum Corals Published 2023-06-28	307
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	261

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
Halichoeres Rüppell, 1835 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	269
Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) EN Phylum Chordata	129
Cephalopholis boenak (Bloch, 1790) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	128
Rhincodon typus Smith, 1828 EN Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	116
Chaetodon octofasciatus Bloch, 1787 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	113
Upeneus Cuvier, 1829 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	112
Sargocentron rubrum (Forsskål, 1775) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	108
Cephalopholis formosa (Shaw, 1812) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	107
Leiognathidae Gill, 1893 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	104
Scolopsis taenioptera (Cuvier, 1830) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	104

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Balaenoptera brydei Olsen, 1913 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	2024
Pseudexogone losinensis Plathong, Plathong & Dean, 2024 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	1	2022
Rhizoprionodon acutus (Rüppell, 1837) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	2	2019
Seriola dumerili (Risso, 1810) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2019
Lethrinus variegatus Valenciennes, 1830 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2019
Pterocaesio digramma (Bleeker, 1864) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2019
Tylerius spinosissimus (Regan, 1908) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2019
Synodus tectus Cressey, 1981 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2019
Pomadasys unimaculatus Tian, 1982 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2019
Equulites laterofenestra (Sparks & Chakrabarty, 2007) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	4	2019

Data providers

Name	Records
California Academy of Sciences	5,666
California Academy of Sciences	5,180
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	5,097
Frontier Research Center for Global Change/JAMSTEC	3,512
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	1,198
Diveboard	1,032
Datafable	1,032
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	865
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	860
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	778