Grenada - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Grenada

Statistics

Occurrence records	8,348
Species level	7,763
Species	1,065
Taxa	1,227
Datasets	47
Time range	1849 - 2016

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	36
No WoRMS match	1,018
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	87
No accepted name available	8

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	8,622	34
eventDate	1,056	0
maximumDepthInMeters	7,618	0
minimumDepthInMeters	1,773	0
occurrenceStatus	2,907	0
scientificName	32	0
scientificNameID	1,730	578

Spatial issues

Records on land	1,047
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	543

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
PANGAEA - Data from Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences Published 2025-03-20	3,910
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Published 2025-03-18	1,131
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	827
PANGAEA - Data from South Atlantic in the late Quaternary: reconstruction of budget and currents Published 2025-03-20	479
PANGAEA - Data from Tübingen University Published 2025-03-20	397
PANGAEA - Data from Glacial Atlantic Mapping and Prediction (GLAMAP2000) Published 2025-03-20	249
Ichthyology Collection - Royal Ontario Museum Published	197
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	169
NOAA Deep-Sea Coral Research and Technology Program Published 2025-02-05	157
Global benthic biogeographical regions and macroecological drivers for ophiuroids [Data set] Published 2023-11-30	94

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
Globigerinoides ruber (d'Orbigny, 1839) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	550
Globorotalia truncatulinoides (d'Orbigny, 1839) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	488
Globigerinita glutinata (Egger, 1893) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	253
Neogloboquadrina dutertrei (d'Orbigny, 1839) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	244
Trilobatus sacculifer (Brady, 1877) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	237
Globigerinella siphonifera (d'Orbigny, 1839) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	221
Globoturborotalita rubescens (Hofker, 1956) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	215
Globigerina bulloides d'Orbigny, 1826 Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	207
Globigerinoides conglobatus (Brady, 1879) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	205
Orbulina universa d'Orbigny, 1839 Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	183

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Palinurus elephas (Fabricius, 1787) VU Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	4	2014
Pterois volitans (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	5	2014
Pomacanthus paru (Bloch, 1787) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2014
Aulostomus maculatus Valenciennes, 1841 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2014
Acanthemblemaria maria Böhlke, 1961 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2014
Condylactis gigantea (Weinland, 1860) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	2	2014
Eudistylia polymorpha (Johnson, 1901) Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	2	2014
Stenorhynchus seticornis (Herbst, 1788) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2	2014
Bathymodiolus boomerang Cosel & Olu, 1998 Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia	6	2014
Acanthostracion polygonium Poey, 1876 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	4	2014

Data providers

Name	Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	5,177
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences	3,910
InvertEBase	1,165
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia	1,131
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	827
University of Bremen Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences	479
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen	397
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	369
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	248
Royal Ontario Museum	246