Dominican Republic - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Dominican Republic

Statistics

Occurrence records	11,078
Species level	10,263
Species	1,061
Taxa	1,365
Datasets	75
Time range	1849 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	552
No WoRMS match	284
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	3
No accepted name available	139

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	5,719	301
eventDate	1,898	0
maximumDepthInMeters	8,404	0
minimumDepthInMeters	8,339	1
occurrenceStatus	3,808	0
scientificName	80	0
scientificNameID	1,109	37

Spatial issues

Records on land	1,277
More than 20 km from shore	3
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	156

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Happywhale - Humpback whale in North Atlantic Ocean Published 2025-03-17	3,061
YoNAH Encounter Published 2021-04-24	1,944
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	918
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	910
Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment - Fish Published	818
NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) Fisheries Log Book System (FLS) Commercial Pelagic Logbook Data Published 2021-08-25	659
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	654
Sea turtle tracking in Bonaire 2003-2011 Published 2021-04-24	281
Atlantic Anguilla surveys (1862-2007) Published 2024-09-09	271
Diveboard - Scuba diving citizen science observations Published 2025-03-20	260

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
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	5,024
Anguilla rostrata (Lesueur, 1817) EN Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	380
Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus, 1766) CR Phylum Chordata	310
Xiphias gladius Linnaeus, 1758 NT Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	283
Scarus iseri (Bloch, 1789) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	133
Sparisoma aurofrenatum (Valenciennes, 1840) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	132
Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	105
Acanthurus coeruleus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	103
Sparisoma viride (Bonnaterre, 1788) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	94
Lepidocybium flavobrunneum (Smith, 1843) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	74

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Abyssopathes lyra (Brook, 1889) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	2	2018
Macropodia rostrata (Linnaeus, 1761) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	4	2014
Sepia officinalis Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda	4	2014
Acanthostracion quadricornis (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	4	2014
Agelas conifera (Schmidt, 1870) Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	1	2014
Favia fragum (Esper, 1793) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	1	2014
Synanceia verrucosa Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	4	2014
Diodon liturosus Shaw, 1804 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	4	2014
Hemicaranx zelotes Gilbert, 1898 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	4	2014
Aetobatus ocellatus (Kuhl, 1823) EN Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	1	2014

Data providers

Name	Records
Duke University	5,541
Happywhale	3,063
University of Southern Maine	1,944
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	1,736
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	1,696
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	1,624
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	910
Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, University of Miami	818
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	776
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	742