Ecuador - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Ecuador

Statistics

Occurrence records	14,158
Species level	11,881
Species	1,677
Taxa	2,197
Datasets	92
Time range	1849 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	225
No WoRMS match	758
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	40
No accepted name available	232

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	11,707	94
eventDate	3,690	0
maximumDepthInMeters	9,838	114
minimumDepthInMeters	10,292	47
occurrenceStatus	6,925	0
scientificName	180	0
scientificNameID	4,352	1,335

Spatial issues

Records on land	1,647
More than 20 km from shore	38
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	412

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	2,186
Marcaje satelital de manta raya oceánica (Mobula birostris) en las aguas costeras de Ecuador Published 2024-09-20	1,169
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	1,085
Happywhale - Humpback whale in South Pacific Ocean Published 2025-03-17	1,079
The Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking (Standardised) Data from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Published 2024-10-23	896
Caracterización de la Biodiversidad Microbiológica y de Invertebrados de la Reserva Marina "El Pelado" a escala Taxonómica, Metabolómica y Meta genómica para su uso en salud humana y animal Published 2024-04-08	867
MONITOREO DE BIODIVERSIDAD DEL INTERMAREAL ROCOSO Reservas Marinas: El Pelado, Bajo Copé y Cantagallo – Machalilla Published 2022-05-24	770
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Published 2025-03-18	485
PANGAEA - Data from the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Published 2025-03-20	463
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	417

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	2,722
Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792) EN Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	1,170
Animalia	559
Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 VU Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	154
Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	109
Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	86
Phataria unifascialis (Gray, 1840) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea	69
Eucidaris thouarsii (L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Echinoidea	69
Orbulina universa d'Orbigny, 1839 Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	62
Pharia pyramidata (Gray, 1840) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea	59

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Amphidinium carterae Hulburt, 1957 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	1	2023
Stylocordyla borealis (Lovén, 1868) Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	2	2019
Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus, 1758) EN Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	6	2018
Johnrandallia nigrirostris (Gill, 1862) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	8	2018
Prionurus laticlavius (Valenciennes, 1846) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	7	2018
Leptogorgia cuspidata Verrill, 1865 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	6	2018
Leptogorgia pumila (Verrill, 1868) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	10	2018
Muricea californica Aurivillius, 1931 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	10	2018
Tubastraea coccinea Lesson, 1830 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	8	2018
Azurina atrilobata (Gill, 1862) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	8	2018

Data providers

Name	Records
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington	2,206
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	2,206
Duke University	1,745
Happywhale	1,337
Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral	1,277
Fundación Megafauna Marina del Ecuador	1,169
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	1,132
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	1,085
Sorbonne Université	978
National Institute for Water & Atmospheric Research	971