Germany: North Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records 1,021,084
Species level 824,846
Species 2,773
Taxa 4,728
Datasets 162
Time range 1753 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 4,749
No WoRMS match 5,551
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 15,901
No accepted name available 62,575

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 693,604 262,439
eventDate 6,485 0
maximumDepthInMeters 649,834 0
minimumDepthInMeters 893,818 0
occurrenceStatus 52,648 0
scientificName 5 0
scientificNameID 4,138 2,438

Spatial issues

Records on land 10,277
More than 20 km from shore 2,868
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 291

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Limanda limanda (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
102,349
Larus fuscus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
55,034
Merlangius merlangus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
50,978
Larus argentatus Pontoppidan, 1763
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
38,551
Pleuronectes platessa Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
35,896
Larus canus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
35,395
Clupea harengus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
34,179
Biota incertae sedis
33,800
Gadus morhua Linnaeus, 1758 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
25,096
Rissa tridactyla (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
22,002

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
Esox lucius Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
12 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

Data providers

Name Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 752,452
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea 689,172
Bureau Waardenburg bv – Ecology & Landscape 284,566
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Research and Technology Centre 284,566
Vlaamse overheid; Beleidsdomein Omgeving; Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek 284,566
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