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France: North Atlantic

Statistics

Occurrence records	2,700,764
Species level	1,788,484
Species	6,953
Taxa	9,067
Datasets	289
Time range	1776 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	2,132
No WoRMS match	4,828
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	16,776
No accepted name available	69,375

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	749,298	1,726,115
eventDate	13,609	0
maximumDepthInMeters	2,490,513	0
minimumDepthInMeters	2,710,944	0
occurrenceStatus	5,324	0
scientificName	129	0
scientificNameID	4,684	2,631

Spatial issues

Records on land	259,471
More than 20 km from shore	6,695
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	3,613

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Macrophytes occurrence data within French Mediterranen Lagoon since 2006 Published 2025-03-20	680,397
Dataset of French Observation and Monitoring program for Phytoplankton and Hydrology in coastal waters since 1987 Published 2025-03-20	509,060
ICES French Southern Atlantic Bottom Trawl Survey for commercial fish species Published 2023-05-23	134,642
The CPR Survey Published 2025-03-20	112,175
Grey seals GPS telemetry in Molene Archipelago Published 2021-04-24	111,276
Benthic Network Published 2025-03-20	81,548
HG_OOSTENDE - Herring gulls (Larus argentatus, Laridae) breeding at the southern North Sea coast (Belgium) Published 2024-09-10	75,536
Observatoire Pelagis boat surveys 2003-2021 Published 2022-10-20	70,454
Benthos monitoring in the intertidal mudflats of Pertuis-Charentais (Bay of Biscay) from 2004 on Published 2025-03-20	66,620
MEDGULL_ANTWERPEN - Mediterranean gulls (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus, Laridae) breeding near Antwerp (Belgium) Published 2024-09-04	61,376

Distribution

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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
Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius, 1791) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	152,420
Larus argentatus Pontoppidan, 1763 Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	115,466
Larus fuscus Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	112,680
Pseudo-nitzschia H. Peragallo in H. Peragallo & M. Peragallo, 1900 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	84,131
Ichthyaetus melanocephalus (Temminck, 1820) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	61,995
Morus bassanus (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	54,923
Phoca vitulina Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	52,222
Peringia ulvae (Pennant, 1777) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	46,559
Chaetoceros C.G. Ehrenberg, 1844 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	37,105
Rhizosolenia T. Brightwell, 1858 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	30,363

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Dinophysis odiosa (Pavillard) Tai & Skogsberg, 1934 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	2	2021
Ceratocorys armata (Schütt) Kofoid, 1910 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	4	2021
Podolampas bipes Stein, 1883 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	2	2021
Protoperidinium oviforme (Dangeard, 1927) Balech, 1974 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	2	2021
Dicladia mitra J.W.Bailey, 1856 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	10	2021
Rhizosolenia calcar-avis Schultze, 1858 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	4	2021
Ulva fenestrata Postels & Ruprecht, 1840 Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Ulvophyceae	4	2021
Pseudo-nitzschia galaxiae N.Lundholm & Ø.Moestrup, 2002 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	16	2021
Vertebrata reptabunda (Suhr) Díaz-Tapia & Maggs, 2017 Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae	5	2021
Polycirrus pennarbedae Lavesque, Hutchings, Daffe & Londoño-Mesa, 2020 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	3	2021

Data providers

Name	Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	1,903,223
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer, IFREMER, Centre de Brest	1,323,472
Cépralmar	680,397
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer, IFREMER, Centre de Nantes	513,370
Duke University	349,929
Vlaamse Overheid - Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek	319,715
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea	316,702
Université de La Rochelle, Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé	200,980
Observatoire Pelagis UMS 3462, University La Rochelle - CNRS	137,108
Observatoire PELAGIS, UMS 3462, University La Rochelle-CNRS	137,108