Dominica

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Statistics

Occurrence records 2,608
Species level 2,052
Species 636
Taxa 759
Datasets 55
Time range 1849 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 120
No WoRMS match 47
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 0
No accepted name available 107

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 2,085 235
eventDate 759 0
maximumDepthInMeters 1,353 0
minimumDepthInMeters 1,328 0
occurrenceStatus 1,233 0
scientificName 19 0
scientificNameID 192 3

Spatial issues

Records on land 312
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 179

Top datasets

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia 		114
Undinula vulgaris (Dana, 1849-1852)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		100
Paracalanus aculeatus Giesbrecht, 1888
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		75
Clausocalanus furcatus (Brady, 1883)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		65
Xiphias gladius Linnaeus, 1758 NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		63
Clausocalanus Giesbrecht, 1888
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		55
Paracalanus Boeck, 1865
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		55
Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		47
Sula sula (Linnaeus, 1766)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves 		45
Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		43

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		1 2017
Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray, 1846
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia 		2 2017
Pseudorca crassidens (Owen, 1846) NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia 		6 2017
Phaethon aethereus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves 		2 2017
Sula sula (Linnaeus, 1766)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves 		45 2017
Sula leucogaster (Boddaert, 1783)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves 		4 2017
Sula dactylatra Lesson, 1831
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves 		1 2017
Anous stolidus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves 		8 2017
Fregata magnificens Mathews, 1914
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves 		5 2017
Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii 		2 2017

Data providers

Name Records
U.S. Geological Survey HQ 977
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington 972
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute 521
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 467
Duke University 425
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 362
The Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS) and Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) 217
Song of the Whale team, MCR International 180
Observatoire Pelagis UMS 3462, University La Rochelle - CNRS 159
Observatoire PELAGIS, UMS 3462, University La Rochelle-CNRS 159