Northern Bering - Chukchi Seas - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Northern Bering - Chukchi Seas

Statistics

Occurrence records	109,655
Species level	72,912
Species	1,419
Taxa	2,246
Datasets	119
Time range	1849 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	36
No WoRMS match	2,098
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	509
No accepted name available	2,157

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	91,400	15,602
eventDate	26,006	0
maximumDepthInMeters	45,062	340
minimumDepthInMeters	45,650	70
occurrenceStatus	35,877	0
scientificName	117	0
scientificNameID	17,264	1,112

Spatial issues

Records on land	862
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	9,587

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	16,782
Marine mammal aerial surveys in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas 1979-2010 Published 2021-04-24	9,473
Fish length, weight, and abundance data from trawl surveys in the Chukchi Sea, Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (AMBON) research cruise on the vessel Norseman II, 09 August 2015 - 03 September 2015 Published 2023-01-18	6,857
Satellite telemetry of King Eiders from northern Alaska 2002-2009 Published 2021-04-24	5,356
Shebaplankton_Falk3 Published 2023-01-18	5,303
Benthic Epifauna Biomass and Abundance Data, Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (AMBON) research cruise on the Norseman II, 9 August 2015 - 3 September 2015 Published 2023-01-18	4,840
Zooplankton Species Distribution and Abundance Data, Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (AMBON) Chukchi Sea research cruise, August 2017 Published 2022-03-31	4,703
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	4,041
Marine Bird Sighting Data, Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (AMBON) Chukchi Sea research cruise on the vessel Norseman II from 2015-08-09 to 2015-09-03 Published 2023-01-18	3,991
Arctic Marine Fish Museum Specimens Published 2019-08-26	3,347

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
Somateria spectabilis (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	5,376
Odobenus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	3,736
Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	2,233
Caniformia Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	2,138
Eschrichtius robustus (Lilljeborg, 1861) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	2,089
Lumpenus fabricii Reinhardt, 1836 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,920
Gymnocanthus tricuspis (Reinhardt, 1830) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,881
Pseudocalanus Boeck, 1873 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1,792
Dinophyceae Fritsch, 1927 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	1,581
Oithona similis Claus, 1866 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1,572

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Corymorpha groenlandica (Allman, 1876) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	1	2023
Mytilus trossulus A. Gould, 1850 Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia	1	2023
Ritterella pulchra (Ritter, 1901) Phylum Chordata > Class Ascidiacea	1	2023
Eumetopias jubatus (Schreber, 1776) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	2023
Cribrinopsis fernaldi Siebert & Spaulding, 1976 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1	2023
Saduria sibirica (Birula, 1896) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2	2022
Pteraster tesselatus Ives, 1888 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea	1	2022
Hyas alutaceus Brandt, 1851 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2022
Cucumaria frondosa (Gunnerus, 1767) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea	1	2021
Beringius kennicottii (Dall, 1871) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1	2021

Data providers

Name	Records
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	33,463
Axiom Data Science	28,854
University of Alaska Fairbanks	28,854
University of Alaska Fairbanks - School of Fisheries and Oceans	23,317
United States Marine Biodiversity Observation Network	20,830
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	18,508
Duke University	17,599
The Marine Mammal Laboratory	9,473
National Science Foundation	6,958
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management of the US Department of the Interior	6,857