Oyashio Current

Statistics

Occurrence records 50,827
Species level 37,893
Species 1,458
Taxa 1,910
Datasets 75
Time range 1849 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 352
No WoRMS match 537
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 1,370
No accepted name available 22,978

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 211,826 162
eventDate 1,647 0
maximumDepthInMeters 173,537 162
minimumDepthInMeters 173,270 164
occurrenceStatus 1,932 0
scientificName 41 0
scientificNameID 1,439 231

Spatial issues

Records on land 1,845
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 1,256

Top datasets

Dataset Records
FRA-PLANKTON DATASET
Published 2024-06-14
21,747
World Ocean Database 2009
Published 2020-11-17
10,822
JODC Dataset
Published 2024-06-14
5,970
NW pacific deep-sea benthos distribution and abundance (Beneficial Project)
Published 2020-06-24
2,270
The CPR Survey
Published 2025-03-20
1,843
Fixed Point Survey for Shorebirds of the family Scolopacidae and Charadriidae
Published 2024-05-16
918
NMFS Turtle Tracking
Published 2021-04-24
847
FishNet2 Marine Data
Published 2023-12-19
803
Kelp Dataset
Published 2024-06-14
688
Arctic benthic invertebrate collection of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science
Published 2019-10-01
621

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
Animalia
2,738
Metridia pacifica Brodsky, 1950
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
2,476
Eucalanus bungii Giesbrecht, 1893
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
2,002
Calanus pacificus Brodsky, 1948
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
1,910
Neocalanus cristatus (Krøyer, 1848)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
1,560
Neocalanus plumchrus (Marukawa, 1921)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
1,395
Mesocalanus tenuicornis (Dana, 1849-1852)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
1,138
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata
847
Pseudocalanus newmani Frost, 1989
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
828
Bacillariophyceae Haeckel, 1878
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
789

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
1 2021
Leucotreton kurilense Sanamyan, Sanamyan, Kukhlevskiy & Shilov, 2022
Phylum Porifera > Class Calcarea
2 2019
Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier, 1823
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
1 2016
Haploniscus gibbernasutus Birstein, 1971
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
3 2016
Haploniscus hydroniscoides Birstein, 1963
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
80 2016
Haploniscus menziesi Birstein, 1963
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
3 2016
Haploniscus profundicolus Birstein, 1971
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
3 2016
Haploniscus ultraabyssalis Birstein, 1963
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2016
Hydroniscus vitjazi Birstein, 1963
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
2 2016
Mastigoniscus latus (Birstein, 1971)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
22 2016

Data providers

Name Records
Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency 21,747
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington 10,842
U.S. Geological Survey HQ 10,842
Japan Oceanographic Data Center 5,970
Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung 2,528
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 2,305
The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1,844
Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science 1,843
Duke University 1,097
Biodiversity Center of Japan, Ministry of the Environment 918