Yellow Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records 149,386
Species level 131,578
Species 3,605
Taxa 4,447
Datasets 94
Time range 1906 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 1,182
No WoRMS match 19,695
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 623
No accepted name available 3,727

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 160,594 0
eventDate 36,932 0
maximumDepthInMeters 158,715 459
minimumDepthInMeters 158,675 459
occurrenceStatus 151,768 0
scientificName 47 0
scientificNameID 103,096 1,750

Spatial issues

Records on land 17,751
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 44

Top datasets

Dataset Records
mabik_cr
Published 2024-12-18
23,972
KOBIS database
Published 2018-11-12
21,511
mabik_na
Published 2024-12-18
18,640
mabik_al
Published 2024-12-18
9,821
Tracking of Far Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis) along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF) (2017-2021)
Published 2022-12-08
9,386
mabik_mo
Published 2024-12-18
9,303
mabik_pi
Published 2024-12-18
6,168
NCOS1959_Crustacea
Published 2024-11-10
6,018
NCOS1959_Mollusca
Published 2018-11-12
4,756
NCOS
Published
3,819

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
Numenius madagascariensis (Linnaeus, 1766) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
9,386
Lumbrineris Blainville, 1828
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
3,170
Sternaspis scutata (Ranzani, 1817)
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1,451
Glycera unicornis Lamarck, 1818
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1,438
Goniada maculata Örsted, 1843
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1,235
Polychaeta Grube, 1850
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1,227
Maldanidae Malmgren, 1867
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1,066
Terebellides stroemii Sars, 1835
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
735
Nephtys polybranchia Southern, 1921
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
704
Notomastus latericeus Sars, 1851
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
670

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Choerodon azurio (Jordan & Snyder, 1901)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2023
Apocryptodon punctatus Tomiyama, 1934
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2023
Eupleurogrammus muticus (Gray, 1831)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2023
Regalecus russellii (Cuvier, 1816)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2023
Chlamydomonas hedleyi J.J.Lee, L.J.Crockett, J.Hagen & R.Stone, 1974
Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Chlorophyceae
1 2023
Sillago sinica Gao & Xue, 2011
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2023
Strophidon tetraporus Huang, Mohapatra, Thu, Chen & Liao, 2020
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2023
Pseudomesochra tatianae Drzycimski, 1968
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
3 2022
Actacarus pacificus Bartsch, 1979
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Arachnida
5 2022
Cerviniella permixta Cho, Kim & Lee, 2023
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
3 2022

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