Egypt: Red Sea - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Egypt: Red Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records	8,454
Species level	7,418
Species	1,717
Taxa	2,111
Datasets	96
Time range	1758 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	11
No WoRMS match	244
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	3
No accepted name available	66

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	6,425	991
eventDate	2,110	0
maximumDepthInMeters	5,893	22
minimumDepthInMeters	5,397	0
occurrenceStatus	3,518	0
scientificName	54	0
scientificNameID	1,296	10

Spatial issues

Records on land	2,342
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	134

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Diveboard - Scuba diving citizen science observations Published 2025-03-20	1,644
PANGAEA - Data from Tübingen University Published 2025-03-20	820
CAS Invertebrate Zoology (IZ) Published 2025-03-17	757
Red Sea Cetacean Review - Sightings Published 2021-04-24	699
Australian Museum Malacology Collection - Marine records Published 2022-06-08	639
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	626
National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Fishes Collections Published	536
The fishes collection (IC) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris) Published	409
F.M.Ghazzawi (1939) Plankton of the Egyptian waters. A study of the Suez Canal Plankton. Notes and Memories of the Hydrobiology and Fisheries Directorate of Egypt, No 24. (A) The Phytoplankton. Preliminary Report Published 2020-04-02	225
Type locality distributions from the World Register of Marine Species Published 2025-03-20	174

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
Tursiops aduncus (Ehrenberg, 1832 [1833]) NT Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	208
Trilobatus sacculifer (Brady, 1877) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	151
Globigerinoides ruber (d'Orbigny, 1839) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	133
Stenella longirostris (Gray, 1828) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	132
Pterois volitans (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	124
Globigerinita glutinata (Egger, 1893) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	118
Globigerinella calida (Parker, 1962) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	105
Stenella attenuata (Gray, 1846) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	92
Globigerinella siphonifera (d'Orbigny, 1839) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	86
Tursiops Gervais, 1855 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	81

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
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
Callechelys marmorata (Bleeker, 1854) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2014

Data providers

Name	Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	2,978
Diveboard	1,644
Datafable	1,644
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	1,524
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen	820
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	792
California Academy of Sciences	780
Duke University	722
Tethys Research Institute	712
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	703