East Siberian Sea - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

East Siberian Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records	2,397
Species level	1,494
Species	174
Taxa	281
Datasets	31
Time range	1849 - 2017

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	0
No WoRMS match	42
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	0
No accepted name available	147

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	2,405	29
eventDate	2,049	0
maximumDepthInMeters	243	0
minimumDepthInMeters	106	0
occurrenceStatus	669	0
scientificName	1	0
scientificNameID	534	33

Spatial issues

Records on land	13
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	1,264

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Archives of the Arctic Seas Zooplankton Published 2019-09-03	1,382
Composition and distribution of the biomass of zooplankton in the central Arctic Basin 1975, 1976, 1977 Published 2019-08-26	411
Arctic benthic invertebrate collection of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science Published 2019-10-01	133
ZINRAS_Arctic_Benthos Published 2019-08-26	91
Occurrence of Eukaryotes in the size fraction >200 micrometres, collected worldwide during the Tara Oceans expedition (2009-2013) using a WPII net and analysed on a ZooScan imaging platform. Published 2025-03-20	55
Arctic Marine Fish Museum Specimens Published 2019-08-26	49
Global benthic biogeographical regions and macroecological drivers for ophiuroids [Data set] Published 2023-11-30	48
Occurrence of Eukaryotes in the size fraction >300 micrometres, collected worldwide during the Tara Oceans expedition (2009-2013) using a Bongo net and analysed on a ZooScan imaging platform Published 2025-03-20	42
Satellite telemetry of King Eiders from northern Alaska 2002-2009 Published 2021-04-24	29
Zooplankton Species Distribution and Abundance Data, Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (AMBON) Chukchi Sea research cruise, August 2017 Published 2022-03-31	24

Distribution

Disclaimer: EEZ boundaries based on Marine Regions (no endorsement).

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
Pseudocalanus Boeck, 1873 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	190
Pseudocalanus minutus (Krøyer, 1845) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	162
Drepanopus bungei Sars G.O., 1898 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	147
Limnocalanus macrurus Sars G.O., 1863 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	101
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	90
Oithona similis Claus, 1866 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	89
Gaetanus Giesbrecht, 1888 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	75
Ophiocten sericeum (Forbes, 1852) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	62
Calanus finmarchicus (Gunnerus, 1770) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	56
Tintinnopsis Stein, 1867 Phylum Ciliophora > Class Oligotrichea	48

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Hyperoche medusarum (Kröyer, 1838) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2017
Parasagitta elegans (Verrill, 1873) Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea	1	2017
Melicertum octocostatum (M. Sars, 1835) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	1	2017
Mitrocomella polydiademata (Romanes, 1876) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	1	2017
Aglantha digitale (O. F. Müller, 1776) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	1	2017
Clione limacina (Phipps, 1774) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1	2017
Limosa lapponica (Linnaeus, 1758) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	1	2017
Centropages abdominalis Sato, 1913 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2017
Acartia (Acartiura) longiremis (Lilljeborg, 1853) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2017
Rhopalonema velatum Gegenbaur, 1857 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	3	2013

Data providers

Name	Records
University of Alaska Fairbanks - School of Fisheries and Oceans	2,069
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences	133
Sorbonne Université	113
Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche-sur-Mer	113
Tara Oceans Consortium	113
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	93
European Bioinformatics Institute	71
California Academy of Sciences - Department of Ichthyology	49
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	49
Norwegian Institute for Water Research	48