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Statistics

Occurrence records 1,660,914
Species level 1,421,381
Species 3,046
Taxa 5,079
Datasets 197
Time range 1753 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 7,106
No WoRMS match 14,114
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 18,787
No accepted name available 68,278

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 1,344,023 262,503
eventDate 6,645 0
maximumDepthInMeters 1,000,567 0
minimumDepthInMeters 1,228,322 0
occurrenceStatus 53,283 0
scientificName 6 0
scientificNameID 8,881 7,104

Spatial issues

Records on land 29,157
More than 20 km from shore 2,871
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 2,158

Top datasets

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Clupea harengus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
137,982
Limanda limanda (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
136,534
Gadus morhua Linnaeus, 1758 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
125,098
Merlangius merlangus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
73,871
Larus argentatus Pontoppidan, 1763
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
56,471
Larus fuscus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
55,228
Pleuronectes platessa Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
53,861
Platichthys flesus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
47,299
Sprattus sprattus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
40,263
Larus canus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
38,593

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
5 2024
Turbanella hyalina Schultze, 1853
Phylum Gastrotricha
11 2023
Aglaophenia tubulifera (Hincks, 1861)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
6 2023
Synedra dissipata Kützing, 1844
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
6 2023
Florenciella parvula Eikrem, 2004
Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Dictyochophyceae
10 2023
Achelia assimilis (Haswell, 1885)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Pycnogonida
5 2023
Atherina boyeri Risso, 1810
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
12 2023
Haematopus unicolor Forster, 1844
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
12 2023
Nannochloropsis granulata B.Karlson & D.Potter, 1996
Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Eustigmatophyceae
17 2023
Squamamoeba japonica Kudryavtsev & Pawlowski, 2013
Phylum Amoebozoa > Class Discosea
4 2023

Data providers

Name Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 1,351,965
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea 1,257,316
Bureau Waardenburg bv – Ecology & Landscape 392,155
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Research and Technology Centre 392,155
Vlaamse overheid; Beleidsdomein Omgeving; Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek 392,155
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research; Wadden Sea Station Sylt 69,718
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 55,823
BUKEA Hamburg, Germany 55,517
Common Wadden Sea Secretariat, Germany 55,517
Danish National Park Wadden Sea, Nationalpark Vadehavet, Denmark 55,517