Laptev Sea - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Laptev Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records	38,629
Species level	12,424
Species	746
Taxa	1,523
Datasets	41
Time range	1878 - 2017

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	14
No WoRMS match	761
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	4,478
No accepted name available	411

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	39,343	50
eventDate	4,452	0
maximumDepthInMeters	31,970	92
minimumDepthInMeters	23,112	19
occurrenceStatus	24,755	0
scientificNameID	2,894	327

Spatial issues

Records on land	198
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	4,435

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
MICROBIS Database (version 1) - European data Published	21,766
PANGAEA - Data from quaternary environment of the Eurasian North (QUEEN) Published 2025-03-20	2,301
PANGAEA - Data from various sources Published 2025-03-20	2,222
Zooplankton Eastern Arctic Ocean Polarstern, 1995-1998 Published 2019-10-02	2,016
PANGAEA - data from Archive of Ocean Data (ArcOD) Published 2025-03-20	1,597
Arctic benthic invertebrate collection of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science Published 2019-10-01	1,463
Archives of the Arctic Seas Zooplankton Published 2019-09-03	1,304
Structures and Nutrition Requirements of Macrozoobenthic Communities in the area of the Lomonossov Ridge, 1995-1998 Published 2019-08-26	984
PANGAEA - Data from marine animal ecology @ AWI Published 2025-03-20	817
ZINRAS_Arctic_Benthos Published 2019-08-26	672

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
Bacteria	3,777
Planctomycetaceae Phylum Planctomycetes > Class Planctomycetacia	1,623
Gammaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	1,531
Deltaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Deltaproteobacteria	1,486
Acidobacteriaceae Phylum Acidobacteria > Class Acidobacteria	1,077
Proteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria	777
Alphaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Alphaproteobacteria	738
Acidobacteria Cavalier-Smith, 2002 Phylum Acidobacteria > Class Acidobacteria	495
Myxococcales Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Deltaproteobacteria	388
Algidasphaeridium Matsuoka & Bujak, 1988 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	383

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Limosa lapponica (Linnaeus, 1758) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	3	2015
Loxosomella apicalis Borisanova, 2018 Phylum Entoprocta	1	2015
Iophon koltuni Morozov, Sabirov & Zimina, 2019 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	1	2014
Suberites cebriones Morozov, Sabirov & Zimina, 2019 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	1	2014
Rhopalonema velatum Gegenbaur, 1857 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	1	2013
Fossulaphycus arcticus Blanco, 2020 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	1	2013
Numenius phaeopus (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	1	2010
Somateria spectabilis (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	50	2003
Rabilimis mirabilis (Brady, 1868) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Ostracoda	261	1998
Cytheropteron suzdalskyi Lev, 1972 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Ostracoda	115	1998

Data providers

Name	Records
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	22,288
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	21,766
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	8,120
University of Alaska Fairbanks - School of Fisheries and Oceans	6,962
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research	3,736
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences	1,466
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	648
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	648
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	538
Norwegian Institute for Water Research	532