Kingdoms detected
7
Number of ASVs
16442
Families detected
380
Species detected
473
Report on site ‘New Zealand’
What is this?
Map showing sampling locations as part of the 2024 Pacific Rally.
Map Tiles via Esri — National Geographic, Esri, DeLorme, NAVTEQ, UNEP-WCMC, USGS, NASA, ESA, METI, NRCAN, GEBCO, NOAA, iPC.
What is this?
We display every species we detected here, sorted by IUCN Red List status. The IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria are intended to be an easily and widely understood system for classifying species at high risk of global extinction. DD: Data deficient. LC: Least Concern. VU: Vulnerable. EN: Endangered. CR: Critically endangered.
Click on the image to open the relevant Atlas of Living Australia page.
From these samples we detected no species listed on the IUCN Red List as Critically Endangered, one as Endangered, no as Vulnerable, no as Near Threatened, no as Data Deficient, nine as Least Concern, and 374 species that have not yet been assessed by the IUCN.
IUCN Endangered species
IUCN Least Concern species
Not pictured: Diaphus fragilis, Encrasicholina punctifer.
Species not assessed by IUCN
Not pictured: Alteromonas, Oithona similis, Vibrio, Podocarpus cunninghamii, Tenacibaculum aiptasiae, Pleuromamma gracilis, Cosmocalanus darwinii, Steenstrupiella steenstrupii, Vibrio sagamiensis, Pseudoalteromonas, Mecynocera clausi, Pleuromamma scutullata, Umbilicosphaera sibogae, Prochlorococcus MIT9313 marinus, Oikopleura fusiformis, Euphausia vallentini, Alcanivorax venustensis, Clausocalanus ingens, Lentisphaera, Zoothamnium pelagicum, Mesorhizobium, Spirotontonia grandis, Vibrio caribbeanicus, Mesonia mobilis, Thalia longicauda, Alcanivorax borkumensis, Marinobacter, Actinomyces, Micrococcus, Sinistrostrombidium cupiformum, Idiomarina, Hortaea werneckii, Calocalanus plumulosus, Chromohalobacter, Paracalanus nanus, Bradyrhizobium, Pontella fera, Rhabdonella poculum, Miracia efferata, Acartia negligens, Amphorellopsis quinquealata, Calocalanus curtus, Phaeocystis globosa, Paracalanus tropicus, Clausocalanus pergens, Clausocalanus arcuicornis, Bathycoccus prasinos, Oikopleura albicans, Chloropicon sieburthii, Photobacterium, Gephyrocapsa parvula, Sphaeronectes koellikeri, Halioglobus pacificus, Kocuria, Heliconoides inflatus, Clausocalanus paululus, Photobacterium angustum, Pycnococcus provasolii, Creseis conica, Shimia, Clausocalanus furcatus, Chloroparvula pacifica, Gilvibacter sediminis, Pseudoalteromonas phenolica, Velamen paralellum, Chloropicon mariensis, Euchaeta marina, Ryocalanus squamatus, Staphylococcus, Ctenocalanus vanus, Vampyrophrya pelagica, Sphingomonas, Corynebacterium, Doliolum nationalis, Turritopsis lata, Syracosphaera pulchra, Halomonas, Planktotalea frisia, Phaeocystis cordata, Leuconostoc, Erwinia, Mesodinium rubrum, Sphingobium, Brevibacterium, Pterosperma cristatum, Erwinia piriflorinigrans, Coccolithus braarudii, Erwinia rhapontici, Pseudomonas, Pseudo-nitzschia abrensis, Pseudo-nitzschia cuspidata, Strombidium caudispina, Eutintinnus perminutus, Halomonas taeanensis, Prymnesium polylepis, Pseudomonas lurida, Maricaulis, Chaetoceros rostratus, Marinobacterium stanieri, Chaetoceros peruvianus, Alteromonas macleodii, Strombidium cf. basimorphum, Geryonia proboscidalis, Brachybacterium, Vibrio azureus, Clostridium sensu stricto 1, Abylopsis eschscholtzii, Calocalanus tenuis, Blastomonas, Atelocyanobacterium (UCYN-A) thalassa, Clausocalanus parapergens, Pleuromamma piseki, Rathkea octopunctata, Brevundimonas, Sphingomonas melonis, Eutintinnus apertus, Parvocalanus crassirostris, Sapphirina scarlata, Caulobacter, Clausocalanus jobei, Paraplanocera oligoglena, Styliola subula, Eucalanus pseudattenuatus, Tachidius triangularis, Oncaea scottodicarloi, Paeniclostridium, Sphingomonas panni, Acrocalanus gracilis, Photobacterium damselae, Neisseria, Photobacterium leiognathi, Calocalanus styliremis, Pneumoderma atlantica, Labrenzia alexandrii, Rothia amarae, Raoultella, Streptococcus, Gordonia, Cutibacterium, Peracle reticulata, Forskalia tholoides, Dokdonia, Salpingacantha undata, Climacocylis scalaroides, Ferosagitta robusta, Pleuromamma abdominalis, Paracalanus indicus, Lucicutia flavicornis, Pontellina plumata, Labrenzia marina, Azospira oryzae, Dermacoccus, Protocystis xiphodon, Chryseobacterium hominis, Acinetobacter, Eutintinnus medius, Tenacibaculum, Lactococcus, Calocalanus minutus, Crocosphaera watsonii, Trichodesmium IMS101 erythraeum, Fabibacter misakiensis, Metarhizium brunneum, Rhodococcus aerolatus, Paracalanus aff. denudatus PA0053.MED, Oncaea waldemari, Alteromonas genovensis, Haloptilus longicornis, Klenkia terrae, Corynebacterium accolens, Clausocalanus farrani, Enhydrobacter aerosaccus, Eutintinnus fraknoi, Triconia conifera, Marinobacter manganoxydans, Trichodesmium IMS101 thiebautii, Psychrobacter celer, Hyalocylis striata, Lentilitoribacter donghaensis, Richelia HH01 intracellularis, Turicella otitidis, Undinula vulgaris, Emiliania huxleyi, Halomonas aquamarina, Nanozoanthus harenaceus, Halomonas meridiana, Vibrio harveyi, Psychrobacter piscatorii, Dietzia, Mesocalanus tenuicornis, Scyphosphaera apsteinii, Novosphingobium humi, Firoloida desmarestia, Fangia hongkongensis, Ruegeria atlantica, Thalassotalea coralli, Candacia simplex, Candacia truncata, Idiomarina loihiensis, Henriciella marina, Gephyrocapsa oceanica, Tenacibaculum litopenaei, Copilia mirabilis, Trichodesmium IMS101 havanum, Farranula gibbula, Romboutsia sedimentorum, Tima bairdii, Chloropicon primus, Oncaea mediterranea, Clausocalanus mastigophorus, Xystonella longicauda, Pseudoalteromonas marina, Gemella, Acrocalanus monachus, Macrosetella gracilis, Candacia ethiopica, Abiotrophia defectiva, Hubrechtella juliae, Nanomia bijuga, Shewanella, Aerococcus, Achromobacter, Polaribacter dokdonensis, Alteromonas hispanica, Dokdonia genika, Pseudoalteromonas citrea, Aidanosagitta regularis, Vibrio fortis, Vibrio chagasii, Vibrio pomeroyi, Dolosigranulum pigrum, Thalassospira, Prasinoderma singulare, Pantoea, Paracoccus, Leucothea multicornis, Acinetobacter guillouiae, Heterorhabdus papilliger, Candacia bispinosa, Temora discaudata, Shewanella schlegeliana, Psychrobacter, Shimia marina, Alcanivorax marinus, Chaetoceros mannaii, Agrobacterium, Pseudochrobactrum kiredjianiae, Kaistia, Chaetoceros diadema, Pseudoalteromonas luteoviolacea, Aliivibrio, Cupriavidus, Chloropicon roscoffensis, Pseudoalteromonas denitrificans, Nyctiphanes australis, Ascidia ahodori, Canuella perplexa, Bestiolina similis, Chaetoceros elegans, Pinctada nigra, Centropages furcatus, Sphingopyxis panaciterrae, Pectinaria granulata, Clostridium sensu stricto 11, Clytia noliformis, Sphingobacterium faecium, Janthinobacterium lividum, Hyalophysa lwoffi, Penicillium rubens, Clytia linearis, Sphingobium yanoikuyae, Paracalanus denudatus, Trichodesmium IMS101 contortum, Carnobacterium, Micromonas pusilla, Helgicirrha malayensis, Prymnesium aff. polylepis, Trochilia petrani, Roseomonas, Oikopleura parva, Martelella endophytica, Acinetobacter lwoffii, Alteromonas australica, Erythrobacter, Chaetoceros decipiens, Stenosemella pacifica, Stenotrophomonas, Roseateles depolymerans, Novosphingobium, Cupriavidus metallidurans, Sulfitobacter pontiacus, Zea mays, Calanoides carinatus, Psychrobacter namhaensis, Brachybacterium tyrofermentans, Salinicola socius, Salinicola, Pseudoclavibacter, Brevibacterium yomogidense, Janthinobacterium, Salinisphaera japonica, Citricoccus, Sphingobacterium, Halomonas sulfidaeris, Tepidicella xavieri, Klebsiella, Marinococcus, Pisum sativum, Vicia villosa, Oikopleura gracilis, Rothia mucilaginosa, Haemophilus, Curtobacterium, Pinus contorta, Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus, Hypocoma acinetarum, Muricauda, Scolecithrix danae, Idiomarina baltica, Aquimarina litoralis, Providencia rettgeri, Oithona atlantica, Centropages violaceus, Pantachogon haeckeli, Thalassotalea eurytherma, Granulicatella, Pelagibius litoralis, Streptococcus salivarius, Marinomonas atlantica, Forskalia asymmetrica, Pseudovibrio ascidiaceicola, Thalassolituus oleivorans, Marinomonas gallaica, Disco hartmanni, Acrocalanus longicornis, Vibrio splendidus, Pseudoalteromonas carrageenovora, Cobetia, Helicosphaera carteri, Ptychopera plebeia, Lensia campanella, Labidocera detruncata, Aureitalea marina, Shewanella olleyana, Corynebacterium kroppenstedtii, Vibrio gigantis, Pseudopolydora paucibranchiata, Vibrio diabolicus, Pseudomonas pachastrellae, Salinicola zeshunii.
Images have been sourced from Wikimedia Commons.
What is this?
We compare pieces of DNA sampled from the environment with a reference database. This table lists every species we detected, along with how closely the DNA we found matches known species in the reference database. For each species we list the IUCN Red List status. The IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria are intended to be an easily and widely understood system for classifying species at high risk of global extinction. DD: Data deficient. LC: Least Concern. VU: Vulnerable. EN: Endangered. CR: Critically endangered.
What is this?
Explore the types of organisms found in these samples. This interactive chart (Krona plot) lets you see which groups were most common — from broad categories like bacteria and animalia down to families and species of fishes. Click on individual segments to zoom in.
Krona Plot
What is this?
Below are alpha diversity metrices plotted for all samples taken within this area.
What is this?
We asked an AI (Claude’s Anthropic 3.7) which species it thinks are the most interesting detected in this site, and why they are interesting. We reproduce the answer below. We ask Claude only for validated species, i.e., species that are known to occur in the area.
Homo sapiens
Humans are the most significant marine species from a societal perspective, as we are the primary drivers of ocean change through activities like fishing, shipping, pollution, and climate change. Our presence in marine samples often indicates contamination or the influence of human activities on marine ecosystems. Understanding human impact on ocean systems is crucial for marine conservation and sustainable use of ocean resources.
Stenella coeruleoalba
The striped dolphin is a highly intelligent marine mammal found in warm and temperate waters worldwide. These dolphins are known for their distinctive blue-white striped pattern and acrobatic abilities, often seen leaping and spinning above the water’s surface. They play important roles as top predators in marine food webs and serve as indicators of ocean health, as pollutants tend to accumulate in their tissues.
Felis silvestris
The wildcat’s presence in marine samples is unusual but may indicate coastal habitat overlap or human-mediated introduction. While primarily terrestrial, these small wild cats occasionally hunt in coastal areas and their genetic material might enter marine systems through various pathways, highlighting the interconnectedness of terrestrial and marine ecosystems.
Balaenoptera borealis
The sei whale is one of the largest animals on Earth, reaching lengths up to 20 meters. These magnificent filter-feeders consume enormous quantities of small fish, squid, and plankton, playing a crucial role in marine nutrient cycling. Once heavily hunted and now protected, sei whales are slowly recovering but remain vulnerable to ship strikes, entanglement in fishing gear, and climate change impacts on their food sources.
Tursiops truncatus
The bottlenose dolphin is perhaps the most recognizable marine mammal, famous for its intelligence, social complexity, and friendly interactions with humans. These adaptable dolphins inhabit coastal and offshore waters worldwide, using sophisticated echolocation to hunt and communicate. They serve as flagship species for marine conservation and are important indicators of coastal ecosystem health.
Sus scrofa
The wild boar’s genetic material in marine samples likely indicates terrestrial runoff or coastal foraging activities. These adaptable omnivores occasionally feed in coastal areas and their waste products can influence marine nutrient cycles, demonstrating how land-based activities affect marine environments.
Ovis aries
Domestic sheep DNA in marine environments typically indicates agricultural runoff from coastal farming operations. Their waste products contribute nutrients to marine systems, which can lead to eutrophication in sensitive coastal waters, highlighting the connection between terrestrial agriculture and marine ecosystem health.
Emiliania huxleyi
This microscopic marine alga is one of the most important organisms in Earth’s oceans, forming massive blooms visible from space due to their distinctive white calcium carbonate plates. These tiny organisms play crucial roles in global carbon cycling, both absorbing carbon dioxide during photosynthesis and releasing it when their limestone shells sink to the ocean floor, making them key players in climate regulation.
Trichodesmium erythraeum
This blue-green marine bacterium forms distinctive filaments that can create large surface blooms, sometimes turning seawater reddish-brown. It’s crucial for ocean productivity as it converts atmospheric nitrogen into forms that other marine life can use, essentially fertilizing vast areas of nutrient-poor tropical oceans and supporting entire marine food webs.
Prochlorococcus marinus
Often called the most abundant photosynthetic organism on Earth, this tiny marine bacterium produces a significant portion of the ocean’s oxygen and forms the base of marine food webs. Despite being invisible to the naked eye, these organisms are so numerous that they collectively have an enormous impact on global climate and ocean productivity.
Pseudo-nitzschia species
These microscopic marine diatoms are both beneficial and potentially dangerous. While they contribute significantly to ocean productivity and the marine food web, some species produce domoic acid, a potent neurotoxin that causes harmful algal blooms. These toxic blooms can kill marine mammals, contaminate seafood, and pose serious health risks to humans who consume affected shellfish or fish.
Vibrio species
This diverse group of marine bacteria includes both harmless species and serious human pathogens. Some Vibrio species cause cholera, food poisoning from contaminated seafood, and wound infections from seawater exposure. Their abundance and distribution are influenced by water temperature and salinity, making them important indicators of changing ocean conditions and climate change impacts on human health.
Retropinna retropinna
The common smelt is a small, silvery fish important to both commercial and recreational fisheries in New Zealand and Australia. These fish serve as crucial food sources for larger predatory fish, seabirds, and marine mammals, while also supporting local fishing communities and economies.
Littorina littorea
The common periwinkle is a small marine snail that plays an important ecological role in rocky intertidal zones. These hardy creatures graze on algae, helping maintain the balance of coastal ecosystems. They’re also harvested for food in some regions and serve as indicators of coastal pollution and climate change impacts.
Thysanoessa raschii and Nyctiphanes australis
These krill species are among the most important animals in ocean food webs, despite their small size. They form massive swarms that feed whales, seals, penguins, fish, and seabirds. Krill convert tiny phytoplankton into protein-rich food for larger animals, making them essential links in marine food chains and crucial for global fisheries and marine ecosystem health.
Encrasicholina punctifer and Nemichthys scolopaceus
These fish species represent the diversity of marine vertebrates, from small schooling fish that support commercial fisheries to unique deep-sea species like the slender snipe eel. Their presence indicates healthy marine ecosystems and biodiversity, important for both ecological balance and potential future fisheries resources.
Perna canaliculus
The New Zealand green-lipped mussel is both ecologically and economically important as a filter-feeder that cleans seawater and as a valuable aquaculture species. These mussels are harvested commercially for food and are also used in dietary supplements, supporting coastal economies while providing ecosystem services.
Pinctada nigra
The black-lipped pearl oyster is economically significant for pearl production in tropical waters. These mollusks also serve important ecological functions as filter-feeders, improving water quality while supporting pearl farming industries that provide livelihoods in many Pacific island communities.
What is this?
Samples in which Harmful Algal Bloom species or Non-Indigenous Species were detected. List of HABs/NIS species provided