Gabon

Statistics

Occurrence records 42,767
Species level 41,048
Species 1,232
Taxa 1,370
Datasets 83
Time range 1849 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 210
No WoRMS match 7,254
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 151
No accepted name available 166

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 16,823 32,333
eventDate 11,176 0
maximumDepthInMeters 49,072 0
minimumDepthInMeters 44,681 0
occurrenceStatus 34,235 0
scientificName 5,913 0
scientificNameID 32,928 959

Spatial issues

Records on land 4,576
More than 20 km from shore 17
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 159

Top datasets

Dataset Records
FishBase Database
Published 2023-03-23
26,288
Ecoscope tuna bycatch observer data
Published 2025-03-20
5,166
Ecoscope tuna observer data
Published 2025-03-20
4,705
PANGAEA - Data from South Atlantic in the late Quaternary: reconstruction of budget and currents
Published 2025-03-20
1,461
PANGAEA - Data from the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
Published 2025-03-20
1,339
FishNet2 Marine Data
Published 2023-12-19
782
Ecoscope Balbaya Database
Published 2025-03-20
598
Bigood
Published 2025-03-20
369
PANGAEA - Data from University Bremen
Published 2025-03-20
299
National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Fishes Collections
Published
257

Distribution

Disclaimer: EEZ boundaries based on Marine Regions (no endorsement).

Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1,677
Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1,330
Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
774
Carcharhinus falciformis (Müller & Henle, 1839) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii
637
Caranx crysos (Mitchill, 1815)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
579
Canthidermis maculata (Bloch, 1786)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
568
Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
547
Auxis thazard (Lacepède, 1800)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
512
Euthynnus alletteratus (Rafinesque, 1810)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
477
Auxis Cuvier, 1829
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
475

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Puffinus gravis (O'Reilly, 1818)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
5 2023
Conopea saotomensis Carrison-Stone, Van Syoc, Williams & Simison, 2013
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Thecostraca
1 2017
Planes minutus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
2 2011
Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) EN
Phylum Chordata
2 2011
Paralepetopsis sasakii Warén & Bouchet, 2009
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
1 2011
Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray, 1846
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
3 2009
Stenella clymene (Gray, 1850)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
4 2009
Stenella frontalis (Cuvier, 1829)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
3 2009
Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829) VU
Phylum Chordata
38 2009
Balaenoptera brydei Olsen, 1913
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
9 2009

Data providers

Name Records
Swedish Museum of Natural History 26,288
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement 10,567
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 3,826
University of Bremen Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences 1,461
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute 782
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 734
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 459
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer, IFREMER, Centre de Brest 369
Duke University 326
University of Bremen 299