Kara Sea

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Statistics

Occurrence records 50,851
Species level 36,142
Species 826
Taxa 1,192
Datasets 53
Time range 1875 - 2013

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 349
No WoRMS match 784
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 480
No accepted name available 2,417

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 51,694 2
eventDate 21,847 0
maximumDepthInMeters 8,685 10
minimumDepthInMeters 1,665 12
occurrenceStatus 12,177 0
scientificNameID 1,825 979

Spatial issues

Records on land 260
More than 20 km from shore 122
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 20,708

Top datasets

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Calanus finmarchicus (Gunnerus, 1770)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		2,891
Oithona similis Claus, 1866
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		1,904
Pseudocalanus Boeck, 1873
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		1,876
Metridia longa (Lubbock, 1854)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		1,332
Calanus glacialis Jaschnov, 1955
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		1,272
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		1,079
Drepanopus bungei Sars G.O., 1898
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		1,023
Microcalanus pygmaeus (Sars G.O., 1900)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		988
Pseudocalanus acuspes (Giesbrecht, 1881)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		935
Calanus hyperboreus Krøyer, 1838
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		808

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Gaetanus curvicornis Sars G.O., 1905
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		1 2013
Solmundella bitentaculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa 		2 2013
Rhopalonema velatum Gegenbaur, 1857
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa 		11 2013
Abylopsis tetragona (Otto, 1823)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa 		1 2013
Thalassionema nitzschioides (Grunow) Mereschkowsky, 1902
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		1 2013
Rhizosolenia imbricata Brightwell, 1858
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		1 2013
Pseudo-nitzschia delicatissima (Cleve) Heiden, 1928
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		2 2013
Proboscia alata (Brightwell) Sundström, 1986
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		2 2013
Navicula planamembranacea Hendey, 1964
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		1 2013
Tripos horridus (Cleve) F.Gómez, 2013
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae 		2 2013

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