West Bering Sea - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

West Bering Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records	13,455
Species level	8,768
Species	736
Taxa	896
Datasets	73
Time range	1849 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	4
No WoRMS match	61
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	23
No accepted name available	250

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	4,409	3,484
eventDate	1,043	0
maximumDepthInMeters	5,887	11
minimumDepthInMeters	5,489	27
occurrenceStatus	1,239	0
scientificName	14	0
scientificNameID	264	23

Spatial issues

Records on land	36
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	773

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Global Kelp Timeseries from NCEAS/KEEN Working Group Published 2022-06-06	2,720
Land-based observations of cetaceans in the waters of Beringa Island in 2007-2009 Published 2021-04-24	1,960
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	1,575
Satellite telemetry of King Eiders from northern Alaska 2002-2009 Published 2021-04-24	1,115
Happywhale - Humpback whale in North Pacific Ocean Published 2025-03-17	985
Phytoplankton data collected during cruise 37 (second joint Soviet-American expedition) of R/V Akademik Korolev (July 1984) in the Bering Sea Published 2025-03-20	789
NOAA Deep-Sea Coral Research and Technology Program Published 2025-02-05	634
The CPR Survey Published 2025-03-20	483
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	381
Arctic benthic invertebrate collection of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science Published 2019-10-01	315

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
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	2,245
Animalia	1,305
Somateria spectabilis (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	1,115
Alaria Greville, 1830 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	340
Laminaria J.V. Lamouroux, 1813 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	340
Agarum Dumortier, 1822 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	340
Thala H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	340
Saccharina latissima (Linnaeus) C.E.Lane, C.Mayes, Druehl & G.W.Saunders, 2006 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	340
Nereocystis Postels & Ruprecht, 1840 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	340
Laminaria yezoensis Miyabe, 1902 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	340

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Lebbeus groenlandicus (Fabricius, 1775) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2024
Pandalus tridens Rathbun, 1902 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2018
Lebbeus longipes (Kobjakova, 1936) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2018
Echinoderes beringiensis Adrianov & Maiorova, 2022 Phylum Kinorhyncha > Class Cyclorhagida	1	2018
Poecillastra malyutini Shilov, Kamenev & Semenchenko, 2023 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	1	2018
Vulcanella koltuni Shilov, Kamenev & Semenchenko, 2023 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	1	2018
Vulcanella commander Shilov, Kamenev & Semenchenko, 2023 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	1	2018
Cercops caecus Kireev & Golovan in Kireev, Golovan & Sharina, 2023 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2018
Liropus beringi Kireev & Golovan, 2024 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2018
Limacina helicina (Phipps, 1774) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	2	2017

Data providers

Name	Records
Duke University	4,736
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	2,949
Boston University, Department of Biology	2,720
University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies	2,720
Coastal Marine Ecology and Conservation Lab, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University	2,720
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	2,243
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	2,209
Far East Russia Orca Project	2,091
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	1,483
University of Alaska Fairbanks - Deparment of Biology & Wildlife	1,115