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OBIS records for ocean sunfish, Mola mola, as at July 2018, visualised by the OBIS mapper (www.obis.org). The Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS), formerly Ocean Biogeographic Information System, is a web-based access point to information about the distribution and abundance of living species in the ocean.
Lessepsian migrants, named after Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French engineer in charge of the Suez Canal's construction, are marine species that are native to the waters on one side of the Suez Canal, and which have been introduced by passage through the canal to the waters on its other side, giving rise to new colonies there and often becoming invasive.
MarBEF Data System (Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning) was a project of the European Union's Network of Excellence [2] which served as a platform to integrate and disseminate knowledge and expertise on marine biodiversity, with informative links to researchers, industry, stakeholders and the general public.
Avibase is an extensive database information system about all birds of the world, containing over 27 million records about 10,000 species and 22,000 subspecies of birds, including distribution information for 20,000 regions, taxonomy, synonyms in several languages and more ASEAN Biodiversity Information Sharing Service (BISS) [5]
Marine life, sea life or ocean ... Past species have also left records of their evolutionary history. ... Taxonomic biodiversity of accepted marine species, ...
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Pitcairn.There are four mammal species in Pitcairn, all of which are marine mammals of the order Cetacea. [1]The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:
Hemigrapsus sanguineus, the Japanese shore crab or Asian shore crab, is a species of crab from East Asia.It has been introduced to several other regions, and is now an invasive species in North America and Europe.
Porpita porpita, or the blue button, is a marine organism consisting of a colony of hydroids [2] found in the warmer, tropical and sub-tropical waters of the Pacific, [3] Atlantic, and Indian oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea and eastern Arabian Sea. [4] It was first identified by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, under the basionym Medusa porpita.