Beaufort Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records 150,080
Species level 105,151
Species 1,421
Taxa 2,704
Datasets 94
Time range 1821 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 491
No WoRMS match 5,226
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 1,869
No accepted name available 3,871

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 122,050 17,208
eventDate 41,997 0
maximumDepthInMeters 69,816 1,487
minimumDepthInMeters 108,030 866
occurrenceStatus 86,244 0
scientificName 41 0
scientificNameID 55,758 1,080

Spatial issues

Records on land 1,056
More than 20 km from shore 8
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 6,437

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
7,820
Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
4,137
Pusa hispida (Schreber, 1775)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
4,019
Erignathus barbatus (Erxleben, 1777)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
3,800
Calanus glacialis Jaschnov, 1955
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
3,340
Metridia longa (Lubbock, 1854)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
2,586
Pseudocalanus minutus (Krøyer, 1845)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
2,456
Calanus hyperboreus Krøyer, 1838
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
2,433
Oithona similis Claus, 1866
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
2,013
Caniformia
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
1,942

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Melphidippa goesi Stebbing, 1899
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2024
Stegocephalus similis G.O. Sars, 1891
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2024
Munnopsurus giganteus (G. O. Sars, 1877)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
4 2024
Umbellula encrinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia
2 2024
Colossendeis angusta Sars, 1877
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Pycnogonida
1 2024
Caecognathia arctica (Gurjanowa, 1929)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2024
Spinularia sarsii (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
1 2024
Cuspidaria glacialis (G. O. Sars, 1878)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
17 2023
Ophiomusa lymani (Wyville Thomson, 1873)
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea
17 2023
Halirages qvadridentatus G.O. Sars, 1877
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
25 2023