Costa Rica: North Atlantic - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Costa Rica: North Atlantic

Statistics

Occurrence records	4,576
Species level	4,004
Species	565
Taxa	732
Datasets	39
Time range	1849 - 2013

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	596
No WoRMS match	271
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	2
No accepted name available	1

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	3,981	27
eventDate	2,162	0
maximumDepthInMeters	3,528	15
minimumDepthInMeters	3,522	0
occurrenceStatus	4,743	0
scientificName	228	0
scientificNameID	707	48

Spatial issues

Records on land	3,409
More than 20 km from shore	14
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	82

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
University of Costa Rica (UCR) Fish Database Published	1,494
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	1,428
Vulnerable marine ecosystems in the South Pacific Ocean region Published 2024-05-01	437
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	409
Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment - Fish Published	256
Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment - Benthic Published 2020-06-09	138
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Published 2025-03-18	96
UF Invertebrate Zoology Published 2024-02-12	58
United States Geological Survey Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database Published 2015-09-11	48
Ichthyology Collection - Royal Ontario Museum Published	25

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
Madracis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	169
Gobiomorus dormitor Lacepède, 1800 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	103
Vieja maculicauda (Regan, 1905) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	103
Siderastrea radians (Pallas, 1766) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	90
Eleotris amblyopsis (Cope, 1871) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	81
Centropomus pectinatus Poey, 1860 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	68
Agaricia agaricites (Linnaeus, 1758) VU Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	68
Eleotris pisonis (Gmelin, 1789) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	64
Agaricia Lamarck, 1801 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	58
Citharichthys spilopterus Günther, 1862 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	57

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Panulirus guttatus (Latreille, 1804) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2013
Cliona yorkin Pacheco, Carballo, Cruz-Barraza, Schönberg & Calcinai, 2020 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	2	2012
Rhincodon typus Smith, 1828 EN Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	1	2011
Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus, 1766) CR Phylum Chordata	4	2010
Arothron meleagris (Anonymous, 1798) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2009
Thalassoma lutescens (Lay & Bennett, 1839) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2009
Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray, 1846 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	4	2008
Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829) VU Phylum Chordata	1	2008
Ophionereis reticulata (Say, 1825) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	1	2004
Dermochelys coriacea (Vandelli, 1761) VU Phylum Chordata	1	2004

Data providers

Name	Records
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	2,321
University of Costa Rica; Department of Biology Museum of Zoology	1,494
University of Costa Rica; Department of Biology; Museum of Zoology	1,494
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	1,428
National Institute for Water & Atmospheric Research	438
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	409
Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, University of Miami	394
Universidad Simon Bolivar	138
InvertEBase	96
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia	96