New Zealand Shelf - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

New Zealand Shelf

Statistics

Occurrence records	1,067,783
Species level	893,380
Species	9,056
Taxa	12,768
Datasets	239
Time range	1834 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	1,038
No WoRMS match	2,950
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	7,724
No accepted name available	3,752

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	103,898	92
eventDate	32,414	0
maximumDepthInMeters	265,091	146
minimumDepthInMeters	208,504	140
occurrenceStatus	47,507	0
scientificName	186	0
scientificNameID	9,630	2,350

Spatial issues

Records on land	16,927
More than 20 km from shore	27
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	49,278

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
New Zealand research tagging database Published 2018-08-08	319,700
New Zealand fish and squid distributions from research bottom trawls 1964-2008 Published 2020-02-14	298,304
Soviet Trawl Fishery Data (New Zealand Waters) 1964-1987 Published 2020-02-12	82,138
Catch data from New Zealand research trawls since 2008 Published 2019-11-27	71,822
NIWA Invertebrate Collection Published 2022-11-24	61,324
Biota occurrence data from plankton surveys around New Zealand Published 2018-11-14	35,220
MICROBIS Database (version 1) - European data Published	34,275
Vulnerable marine ecosystems in the South Pacific Ocean region Published 2024-05-01	20,957
Marine species citizen-science observations from NatureWatch NZ Published 2022-12-13	20,475
Large marine predator aerial survey data for Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand Published 2024-06-19	12,201

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
Jasus edwardsii (Hutton, 1875) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	155,842
Pagrus auratus (Forster, 1801) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	75,050
Parapercis colias (Forster, 1801) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	22,601
Metanephrops challengeri (Balss, 1914) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	18,699
Pecten novaezelandiae Reeve, 1852 Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia	15,909
Galeorhinus galeus (Linnaeus, 1758) CR Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	11,910
Macruronus novaezelandiae (Hector, 1871) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	11,571
Arripis trutta (Forster, 1801) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	11,463
Nemadactylus macropterus (Forster, 1801) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	11,252
Squalus acanthias Linnaeus, 1758 VU Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	11,223

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Pygoscelis adeliae (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	2	2021
Salmo trutta Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	4	2019
Janthina umbilicata A. d'Orbigny, 1841 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	4	2019
Luidia australiae Döderlein, 1920 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea	4	2019
Anisolabis littorea (White, 1846) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Hexapoda	12	2019
Ammophila arenaria (L.) Link Phylum Tracheophyta > Class Magnoliopsida	27	2019
Petalonia binghamiae (J.Agardh) K.L.Vinogradova, 1973 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	5	2019
Marpissa marina (Goyen, 1892) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Arachnida	5	2019
Watersipora subatra (Ortmann, 1890) Phylum Bryozoa > Class Gymnolaemata	5	2019
Sagmatias obscurus (Gray, 1828) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	6	2019

Data providers

Name	Records
National Institute for Water & Atmospheric Research	961,134
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	36,205
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	34,275
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	25,593
iNaturalist NZ	20,475
University of Auckland	12,229
University of Waikato	12,201
Oregon State University	12,201
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa	11,195
Geomarine Research	10,386