Egypt: all - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Egypt: all

Statistics

Occurrence records	23,346
Species level	11,835
Species	2,913
Taxa	3,983
Datasets	168
Time range	1758 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	82
No WoRMS match	444
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	2,366
No accepted name available	170

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	18,062	1,007
eventDate	2,992	0
maximumDepthInMeters	18,367	53
minimumDepthInMeters	17,522	14
occurrenceStatus	14,616	0
scientificName	78	0
scientificNameID	1,633	27

Spatial issues

Records on land	2,714
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	174

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
MICROBIS Database (version 1) - European data Published	10,241
Diveboard - Scuba diving citizen science observations Published 2025-03-20	1,649
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	887
Steuer A. 1939. The fishery grounds near Alexandria. XIX Mollusca. Notes and Memoirs No 33 Published 2020-05-28	868
PANGAEA - Data from Tübingen University Published 2025-03-20	820
CAS Invertebrate Zoology (IZ) Published 2025-03-24	758
Red Sea Cetacean Review - Sightings Published 2021-04-24	701
The fishes collection (IC) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris) Published	679
Australian Museum Malacology Collection - Marine records Published 2022-06-08	648
National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Fishes Collections Published	537

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
Bacteria	1,121
Gammaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	763
Acidobacteriaceae Phylum Acidobacteria > Class Acidobacteria	570
Planctomycetaceae Phylum Planctomycetes > Class Planctomycetacia	518
Alphaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Alphaproteobacteria	420
Deltaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Deltaproteobacteria	355
Rhodobacteraceae Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Alphaproteobacteria	297
Proteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria	243
Actinobacteria Phylum Actinobacteria > Class Actinobacteria	213
Acidobacteria Cavalier-Smith, 2002 Phylum Acidobacteria > Class Acidobacteria	212

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Aequorea forskalea Péron & Lesueur, 1810 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	1	2019
Aurelia aurita (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Scyphozoa	2	2019
Grateloupia gibbesii Harvey, 1853 Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae	1	2019
Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	1	2014
Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2014
Heteropriacanthus cruentatus (Lacepède, 1801) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2014
Grimpoteuthis megaptera (A. E. Verrill, 1885) Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda	1	2014
Tubipora musica Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia	1	2014
Amphiprion clarkii (Bennett, 1830) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2014
Dichrometra palmata (Müller, 1841) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Crinoidea	1	2014

Data providers

Name	Records
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	12,048
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	10,308
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	3,693
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture	3,203
University of Crete	2,059
Diveboard	1,649
Datafable	1,649
Duke University	907
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	887
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen	820