East Timor - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

East Timor

Statistics

Occurrence records	22,404
Species level	20,072
Species	1,067
Taxa	1,388
Datasets	48
Time range	1860 - 2019

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	575
No WoRMS match	135
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	4
No accepted name available	6

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	475	2
eventDate	1,014	0
maximumDepthInMeters	3,914	0
minimumDepthInMeters	3,841	0
occurrenceStatus	905	0
scientificName	124	0
scientificNameID	258	1

Spatial issues

Records on land	1,959
More than 20 km from shore	14
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	3,783

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Ecosystem Sciences Division, National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Stratified random surveys (StRS) of reef fish in the U.S. Pacific Islands Published 2021-08-25	18,742
Australian Museum Ichthyology Collection Published 2022-06-08	775
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Malacology Collection - marine records Published 2023-06-28	636
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	631
Australian Museum Marine Invertebrate Collection Published 2023-06-28	588
Australian Museum Malacology Collection - Marine records Published 2022-06-08	207
NESP A12: Northern Australia threatened species, Australia (1905-2020) Published 2022-11-14	132
Tracking of Far Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis) along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF) (2017-2021) Published 2022-12-08	130
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Ichthyology Collection - Marine records Published 2023-06-28	114
Diversity of the Indo-Pacific (DIPnet) Published	107

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
Thalassoma lunare (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	502
Chaetodon kleinii Bloch, 1790 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	380
Dascyllus reticulatus (Richardson, 1846) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	379
Pseudanthias huchtii (Bleeker, 1857) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	359
Pycnochromis margaritifer (Fowler, 1946) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	346
Thalassoma amblycephalum (Bleeker, 1856) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	341
Labroides dimidiatus (Valenciennes, 1839) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	324
Ctenochaetus binotatus Randall, 1955 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	314
Balistapus undulatus (Park, 1797) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	307
Ctenochaetus striatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	291

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Numenius madagascariensis (Linnaeus, 1766) EN Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	130	2019
Calidris ruficollis (Pallas, 1776) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	1	2016
Eviota bipunctata Greenfield & Jewett, 2016 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2016
Eviota atauroensis Greenfield, Erdmann & Tornabene, 2023 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2016
Lambis scorpius (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1	2014
Turbo argyrostomus Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1	2014
Terebra anilis (Röding, 1798) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1	2014
Monoplex mundus (A. Gould, 1849) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1	2014
Zebrasoma scopas (Cuvier, 1829) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	251	2013
Pomacentrus auriventris Allen, 1991 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	248	2013

Data providers

Name	Records
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	18,744
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	18,744
Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System	18,742
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	2,534
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	2,402
Australian Museum	1,570
Museum and Art Gallery, Northern Territory	752
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	631
Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville	132
University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies	132