Costa Rica: North Pacific - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Costa Rica: North Pacific

Statistics

Occurrence records	221,279
Species level	34,125
Species	2,611
Taxa	3,617
Datasets	122
Time range	1849 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	640
No WoRMS match	1,763
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	181
No accepted name available	135,793

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	216,976	610
eventDate	6,904	0
maximumDepthInMeters	212,588	0
minimumDepthInMeters	209,184	0
occurrenceStatus	21,346	0
scientificName	783	0
scientificNameID	6,680	20

Spatial issues

Records on land	126,993
More than 20 km from shore	37
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	1,572

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
UNESCO eDNA expedition in Cocos Island National Park (Costa Rica): December 2022 Published 2024-12-08	194,372
University of Costa Rica (UCR) Fish Database Published	8,592
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	4,743
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Published 2025-03-18	1,717
CAS Ichthyology (ICH) Published 2025-03-17	1,578
PANGAEA - Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Published 2025-03-20	1,183
PANGAEA - Data from the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Published 2025-03-20	1,056
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	839
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	731
Happywhale - Humpback whale in North Pacific Ocean Published 2025-03-17	685

Distribution

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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
Biota incertae sedis	135,638
Chordata Haeckel, 1874 Phylum Chordata	16,336
Animalia	9,709
Actinopteri Phylum Chordata	3,229
Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1,584
Clausocalanus furcatus (Brady, 1883) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1,336
Arthropoda Gravenhorst, 1843 Phylum Arthropoda	1,245
Pelagomonas calceolata R.A.Andersen & G.Saunders, 1993 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Pelagophyceae	1,202
Phaeocystis Lagerheim, 1893 Phylum Haptophyta > Class Coccolithophyceae	1,116
Dinophyceae Fritsch, 1927 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	918

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Balaenoptera brydei Olsen, 1913 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	2024
Clausocalanus furcatus (Brady, 1883) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1,336	2022
Nanomia bijuga (Delle Chiaje, 1844) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	95	2022
Cylindrotheca closterium (Ehrenberg) Reimann & J.C.Lewin, 1964 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	166	2022
Euthynnus affinis (Cantor, 1849) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	282	2022
Pelagomonas calceolata R.A.Andersen & G.Saunders, 1993 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Pelagophyceae	1,202	2022
Nusuttodinium poecilochroum (J.Larsen) Y.Takano & T.Horiguchi, 2014 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	113	2022
Hemiarma marina Shiratori & K.Ishida, 2016 Phylum Cryptophyta > Class Cryptophyceae	94	2022
Chloropicon roscoffensis Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem, 2017 Phylum Chlorophyta	142	2022
Chloropicon sieburthii Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem, 2017 Phylum Chlorophyta	103	2022

Data providers

Name	Records
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization	194,897
Coco Marine Conservation Area	194,372
Cocos Island National Park	194,372
UNESCO-IOC	194,372
UNESCO-WHC	194,372
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	9,557
University of Costa Rica; Department of Biology Museum of Zoology	8,592
University of Costa Rica; Department of Biology; Museum of Zoology	8,592
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	4,743
Duke University	2,936