Institute of Marine Research

Child institutes Institute of Marine Research, Tromsø
Institute of Marine Research, Flødevigen Research Station
Institute of Marine Research – Norwegian Marine Data Centre

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Statistics

Occurrence records 41,742
Species level 37,766
Species 749
Taxa 791
Datasets 3
Time range 1980 - 2015

Data quality

Dropped records

Not marine 0
No WoRMS match 13
No coordinates 5
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 0
No accepted name available 170

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 41,769 0
decimalLatitude 5 0
decimalLongitude 5 0
maximumDepthInMeters 32,640 0
minimumDepthInMeters 32,640 0
scientificNameID 13 0

Spatial issues

Records on land 490
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 120

Top datasets

Dataset Records
Incidental sightings of marine mammals
Published 2024-12-12 		31,081
MAR-ECO 2004
Published 2024-12-12 		9,501
MAR-ECO 2004 - Mammals and birds
Published 2024-12-12 		1,160

Distribution

Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia 		7,015
Lagenorhynchus Gray, 1846
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia 		3,969
Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia 		3,337
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia 		3,067
Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia 		2,609
Lagenorhynchus albirostris Gray, 1846
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia 		2,212
Pagophilus groenlandicus (Erxleben, 1777)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia 		1,974
Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia 		1,921
Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia 		1,738
Globicephala melas (Traill, 1809)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia 		828