South China Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records 180,411
Species level 142,817
Species 10,289
Taxa 12,592
Datasets 196
Time range 1758 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 465
No WoRMS match 8,417
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 69
No accepted name available 1,479

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 166,722 1,848
eventDate 88,545 0
maximumDepthInMeters 158,851 180
minimumDepthInMeters 99,777 5
occurrenceStatus 93,139 0
scientificName 1,782 0
scientificNameID 26,604 263

Spatial issues

Records on land 6,562
More than 20 km from shore 21
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 1,631

Top datasets

Dataset Records
PANGAEA - Data from the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
Published 2025-03-20
20,977
NCOS1959_Crustacea
Published 2024-11-10
15,810
FishNet2 Marine Data
Published 2023-12-19
13,534
PANGAEA - Data from international marine global change study (IMAGES)
Published 2025-03-20
11,768
PANGAEA - Data from various sources
Published 2025-03-20
11,222
PANGAEA - Data from Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
Published 2025-03-20
9,558
NCOS1959_Mollusca
Published 2018-11-12
8,339
Asia-Pacific Dataset
Published 2024-06-14
7,861
World Ocean Database 2009
Published 2020-11-17
5,912
NCOS1959_Echinodermata
Published
4,378

Distribution

Disclaimer: EEZ boundaries based on Marine Regions (no endorsement).

Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Globigerinoides ruber (d'Orbigny, 1839)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
2,311
Trilobatus sacculifer (Brady, 1877)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
2,293
Globigerinita glutinata (Egger, 1893)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
1,986
Pulleniatina obliquiloculata (Parker & Jones, 1865)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
1,841
Neogloboquadrina dutertrei (d'Orbigny, 1839)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
1,810
Globigerinella siphonifera (d'Orbigny, 1839)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
1,809
Globigerina bulloides d'Orbigny, 1826
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
1,759
Orbulina universa d'Orbigny, 1839
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
1,691
Globigerinella calida (Parker, 1962)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
1,559
Globigerinoides conglobatus (Brady, 1879)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
1,444

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Pseudobrachyamblyopus odontamblyopsis Ba, 2023
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2023
Cabillus wui Ba, 2023
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2023
Oneirophanta lucerna Xiao & Zhang, 2024
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea
1 2023
Polymixia melanostoma Fan, Su, Lin, Chang & Lin, 2024
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2023
Cymo mazu Yuan, Jiang & Sha, 2023
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2022
Opistognathus cryos Su & Ho, 2024
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2022
Petrolisthes lamarckii (Leach, 1821)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
15 2021
Cardita leana Dunker, 1860
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
17 2021
Thylacodes adamsii (Mörch, 1859)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
18 2021
Tegula rustica (Gmelin, 1791)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
19 2021

Data providers

Name Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 56,650
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 46,391
Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 39,169
ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity 28,998
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute 13,534
University of Bremen Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences 11,768
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel 9,558
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure 8,694
Frontier Research Center for Global Change/JAMSTEC 7,861
U.S. Geological Survey HQ 7,019