South West Australian Shelf

Statistics

Occurrence records 1,007,093
Species level 314,685
Species 5,799
Taxa 8,712
Datasets 226
Time range 1803 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 872
No WoRMS match 126,660
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 8,606
No accepted name available 4,864

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 28,902 2,707
eventDate 26,804 0
maximumDepthInMeters 86,291 30
minimumDepthInMeters 72,206 2
occurrenceStatus 11,642 0
scientificName 839 0
scientificNameID 160,886 1,118

Spatial issues

Records on land 40,775
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 19,572

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Alphaproteobacteria
Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Alphaproteobacteria
141,360
Thermoplasmata
Phylum Euryarchaeota > Class Thermoplasmata
88,849
Neophoca cinerea (Péron, 1816) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
58,290
Cyanobacteria Stanier ex Cavalier-Smith, 2002
Phylum Cyanobacteria
55,153
Syndiniales
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
50,830
Bacteria
33,798
Pseudomonadales
Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria
26,796
Flavobacteriaceae (Reichenbach, 1992) emend. Bernardet, Nakagawa & Holmes, 2002
Phylum Bacteroidetes > Class Flavobacteria
22,460
Amoebophrya Koeppen, 1894
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
21,341
Dinophyceae Fritsch, 1927
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
20,903

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Acartia (Odontacartia) pacifica Steuer, 1915
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
1 2022
Phallusia nigra Savigny, 1816
Phylum Chordata > Class Ascidiacea
1 2021
Carcharhinus leucas (Valenciennes, 1839) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
1 2021
Lichomolgus canui Sars G.O., 1917
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
1 2021
Prostheceraeus vittatus (Montagu, 1815)
Phylum Platyhelminthes
1 2021
Carinoma tremaphoros Thompson, 1900
Phylum Nemertea > Class Palaeonemertea
1 2021
Spongaster tetras Ehrenberg, 1860
Phylum Radiozoa > Class Polycystina
3 2021
Polaribacter dokdonensis Yoon, Kang & Oh, 2006
Phylum Bacteroidetes > Class Flavobacteria
2 2021
Tenacibaculum soleae Pineiro-Vidal, Carballas, Gomez-Barreiro, Riaza & Santos, 2008
Phylum Bacteroidetes > Class Flavobacteria
2 2021
Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus Gauthier, Lafay, Christen, Fernandez, Acquaviva, Bonin & Bertrand, 1992
Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria
2 2021