Sulu-Celebes Sea

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Statistics

Occurrence records 275,227
Species level 97,835
Species 11,927
Taxa 14,129
Datasets 155
Time range 1834 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 1,448
No WoRMS match 6,399
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 258
No accepted name available 116,118

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 249,732 582
eventDate 42,410 0
maximumDepthInMeters 236,861 419
minimumDepthInMeters 236,524 157
occurrenceStatus 88,254 0
scientificName 2,152 0
scientificNameID 44,698 105

Spatial issues

Records on land 11,029
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 6,607

Top datasets

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Biota incertae sedis
115,610
Chordata Haeckel, 1874
Phylum Chordata 		11,613
Animalia
8,410
Rhincodon typus Smith, 1828 EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii 		1,993
Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia 		1,249
Cylindrotheca closterium (Ehrenberg) Reimann & J.C.Lewin, 1964
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		1,125
Gastropoda Cuvier, 1795
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda 		1,119
Florideophyceae Cronquist, 1960
Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae 		1,073
Actinopteri
Phylum Chordata 		803
Arthropoda Gravenhorst, 1843
Phylum Arthropoda 		765

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Clausocalanus furcatus (Brady, 1883)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		100 2023
Cylindrotheca closterium (Ehrenberg) Reimann & J.C.Lewin, 1964
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		1,125 2023
Florenciella parvula Eikrem, 2004
Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Dictyochophyceae 		100 2023
Ptereleotris zebra (Fowler, 1938)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		58 2023
Gephyrocapsa huxleyi (Lohmann) P.Reinhardt, 1972
Phylum Haptophyta > Class Coccolithophyceae 		154 2023
Hipposcarus longiceps (Valenciennes, 1840)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		426 2023
Hypoatherina celebesensis Sasaki & Kimura, 2012
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		145 2023
Nusuttodinium poecilochroum (J.Larsen) Y.Takano & T.Horiguchi, 2014
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae 		61 2023
Pseudo-nitzschia sabit S.T. Teng, H.C. Lim, P.T. Lim & C.P. Leaw, 2015
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		87 2023
Paramoeba branchiphila (Dyková, B.F.Nowak, Crosbie, I.Fiala, H.Pecková, M.B.Adams, Macháčková & Dvořáková) Feehan, Johnson-Mackinnon, Scheibling, Lauzon & A.G.B.Simpson, 2013
Phylum Amoebozoa > Class Discosea 		76 2023

Data providers

Name Records
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 166,063
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Philippines 163,054
Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Philippines 163,054
Environmental Legal Action Center - ELAC, Philippines 163,054
LGU- Cagayancillo, Philippines 163,054
LGU-Kalayaan Group of Island, Philippines 163,054
Philippine Coast Guard, Philippines 163,054
Philippine Navy, Philippines 163,054
Tubbataha Management Office, Philippines 163,054
UNESCO-IOC 163,054