East China Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records 293,979
Species level 245,328
Species 8,349
Taxa 9,900
Datasets 164
Time range 1849 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 646
No WoRMS match 25,422
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 3,358
No accepted name available 16,512

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 307,741 264
eventDate 34,936 0
maximumDepthInMeters 205,313 3,195
minimumDepthInMeters 205,142 3,724
occurrenceStatus 185,386 0
scientificName 1,200 0
scientificNameID 147,515 1,607

Spatial issues

Records on land 31,416
More than 20 km from shore 133
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 3,853

Top datasets

Dataset Records
World Ocean Database 2009
Published 2020-11-17
52,313
JODC Dataset
Published 2024-06-14
42,307
mabik_al
Published 2024-12-18
28,708
mabik_cr
Published 2024-12-18
22,071
FishNet2 Marine Data
Published 2023-12-19
17,978
mabik_pi
Published 2024-12-18
17,876
mabik_na
Published 2024-12-18
15,249
mabik_mo
Published 2024-12-18
12,578
mabik_pr
Published 2024-12-18
7,371
Marine Biological Sample Database, JAMSTEC
Published 2024-09-30
7,341

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
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata
3,104
Chaetoceros C.G. Ehrenberg, 1844
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
2,895
Animalia
2,809
Skeletonema costatum (Greville) Cleve, 1873
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
2,361
Nitzschia A.H. Hassall, 1845
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
1,827
Numenius madagascariensis (Linnaeus, 1766) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1,812
Bacillariophyceae Haeckel, 1878
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
1,730
Tripos fusus (Ehrenberg) F.Gómez, 2013
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
1,699
Leptocylindrus danicus Cleve, 1889
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
1,578
Tripos furca (Ehrenberg) F.Gómez, 2013
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
1,447

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
1 2024
Chiroteuthis picteti Joubin, 1894
Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda
1 2024
Omobranchus loxozonus (Jordan & Starks, 1906)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2024
Homalogastra setosa Kahl, 1926
Phylum Ciliophora > Class Oligohymenophorea
1 2024
Ascidiella aspersa (Müller, 1776)
Phylum Chordata > Class Ascidiacea
3 2023
Nannastacus spinulosus Gamo, 1962
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
4 2023
Euthalenessa digitata (McIntosh, 1885)
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
4 2023
Anthopleura asiatica Uchida & Muramatsu, 1958
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia
4 2023
Vasostoma brevispicula Huang & Wu, 2011
Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea
6 2023
Parodontophora huoshanensis Li & Guo, 2016
Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea
6 2023

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