Fiji eDNA biodiversity report 2024

Interactive 2024 eDNA biodiversity report for samples within the Fiji Exclusive Economic Zone.

Report on site ‘Fiji’

Kingdoms detected

7

Number of ASVs

15552

Families detected

411

Species detected

550

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.

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.

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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, one as Data Deficient, 14 as Least Concern, and 437 species that have not yet been assessed by the IUCN.

IUCN Endangered species

Pan troglodytes
Figure 1: Endangered species

IUCN Data Deficient species

Tetrapturus angustirostris
Figure 2: Data Deficient species

IUCN Least Concern species

Ceratoscopelus warmingii

Diaphus watasei

Gallus gallus

Gobiomorphus australis

Nemichthys scolopaceus

Retropinna retropinna

Salmo trutta

Scardinius erythrophthalmus

Stenella attenuata

Sus scrofa

Thunnus alalunga
Figure 3: Least Concern species

Not pictured: Encrasicholina punctifer, Bolinichthys photothorax, Chromis weberi.

Species not assessed by IUCN

Aglaura hemistoma

Bassia bassensis

Bittium glareosum

Boloceroides mcmurrichi

Bos taurus

Calocalanus pavo

Cerithium balteatum

Cerithium egenum

Cerithium rostratum

Cestum veneris

Clypeomorus brevis

Colobonema sericeum

Creseis clava

Creseis virgula

Dendostrea frons

Doliolum denticulatum

Eucidaris metularia

Haeckelia rubra

Homo sapiens

Liriope tetraphylla

Littorina littorea

Mespilia globulus

Monetaria annulus

Oikopleura dioica

Ophiocoma echinata

Ovis aries

Paracalanus parvus

Perna canaliculus

Salpa fusiformis

Sapphirina darwinii

Solmundella bitentaculata

Temora turbinata

Thysanoessa raschii

Tyrophagus putrescentiae
Figure 4: Not Assessed species

Not pictured: Pseudomonas, Oithona similis, Prochlorococcus MIT9313 marinus, Rhabdonella poculum, Crocosphaera watsonii, Trichodesmium IMS101 contortum, Trichodesmium IMS101 erythraeum, Photobacterium, Halomonas, Fabibacter misakiensis, Richelia HH01 intracellularis, Heliconoides inflatus, Trichodesmium IMS101 havanum, Abylopsis eschscholtzii, Photobacterium angustum, Calocalanus plumulosus, Vibrio azureus, Trichodesmium IMS101 thiebautii, Paracalanus indicus, Eutintinnus fraknoi, Lucicutia flavicornis, Vibrio sagamiensis, Gephyrocapsa oceanica, Pseudoalteromonas, Chelophyes appendiculata, Labrenzia alexandrii, Clausocalanus furcatus, Tenacibaculum litopenaei, Ferosagitta robusta, Pseudoalteromonas phenolica, Micrococcus, Enhydrobacter aerosaccus, Macrosetella gracilis, Haemophilus, Vibrio, Marinobacter flavimaris, Miracia efferata, Acartia negligens, Acrocalanus gracilis, Alcanivorax venustensis, Alcanivorax borkumensis, Nisaea nitritireducens, Notoplana australis, Chaetoceros elegans, Chromohalobacter, Gilvibacter sediminis, Pseudoalteromonas luteoviolacea, Paracalanus nanus, Clytia gracilis, Eutintinnus perminutus, Salinisphaera japonica, Phaeocystis cordata, Tepidicella xavieri, Doliolum nationalis, Sinistrostrombidium cupiformum, Alteromonas, Calocalanus curtus, Sapphirina scarlata, Cosmocalanus darwinii, Henriciella marina, Photobacterium leiognathi, Mecynocera clausi, Planktotalea frisia, Paracalanus denudatus, Idiomarina, Clausocalanus paululus, Paracalanus tropicus, Eutintinnus medius, Calocalanus minutus, Marinobacter, Lensia campanella, Aureitalea marina, Thalassospira, Centropages violaceus, Copilia mirabilis, Brevundimonas, Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, Chryseobacterium hominis, Penicillium rubens, Turicella otitidis, Clausocalanus arcuicornis, Emiliania huxleyi, Iridona iridescens, Haloptilus longicornis, Phaeocystis globosa, Vibrio fortis, Labrenzia marina, Paracalanus aff. denudatus PA0058.GOA, Centropages furcatus, Tropicibacter phthalicicus, Vibrio caribbeanicus, Firoloida desmarestia, Actinomyces, Temora discaudata, Chloropicon sieburthii, Sphaeronectes koellikeri, Euchaeta marina, Pontellina plumata, Oncaea scottodicarloi, Oithona attenuata, Chloropicon roscoffensis, Aidanosagitta regularis, Amphorellopsis quinquealata, Apiospora arundinis, Salinicola salarius, Salinicola socius, Salinicola, Rhodococcus, Psychrobacter namhaensis, Psychrobacter celer, Psychrobacter piscatorii, Leucobacter, Atlanta oligogyra, Eutintinnus apertus, Acrocalanus monachus, Xystonella longicauda, Psychrobacter, Prymnesium aff. polylepis, Acinetobacter, Penicillium citrinum, Psychrobacter marincola, Zoothamnium pelagicum, Ryocalanus squamatus, Oncaea media, Clausocalanus minor, Pseudoscourfieldia marina, Vampyrophrya pelagica, Thalassobius mediterraneus, Farranula gibbula, Pseudoalteromonas marina, Oncaea waldemari, Mameliella alba, Lentilitoribacter donghaensis, Ruegeria, Shimia, Thalia democratica, Tachidius triangularis, Shimia marina, Sulfitobacter pontiacus, Armandia bilobata, Diphyes chamissonis, Vibrio aestivus, Brevibacterium, Canthocalanus pauper, Pectinaria granulata, Microbacterium, Cobetia, Halomonas meridiana, Carnobacterium, Sphingobacterium faecium, Janthinobacterium lividum, Anomalocera patersoni, Polyophthalmus pictus, Vibrio ishigakensis, Brevibacterium yomogidense, Glutamicibacter, Salinisphaera, Janthinobacterium, Microbulbifer agarilyticus, Acinetobacter guillouiae, Sphingobium japonicum, Labidocera acuta, Chromohalobacter canadensis, Sanguibacter, Hanseniaspora opuntiae, Persicobacter diffluens, Pseudochrobactrum kiredjianiae, Aerococcus, Lactococcus, Brochothrix thermosphacta, Sphingobacterium, Grimontia, Chloroparvula pacifica, Loxomitra tetraorganon, Euphausia mutica, Chloropicon maureeniae, Pelagibius litoralis, Gephyrocapsa parvula, Euphausia vallentini, Paracalanus aculeatus, Acrocalanus longicornis, Sphingomonas panni, Scolecithricella longispinosa, Zea mays, Vibrio campbellii, Alteromonas australica, Oikopleura fusiformis, Paracalanus aff. denudatus PA0053.MED, Leuconostoc, Brachybacterium tyrofermentans, Erwinia piriflorinigrans, Rahnella aquatilis, Stenotrophomonas, Plantibacter, Duganella zoogloeoides, Agrobacterium, Ewingella americana, Methylobacterium, Sphingobium, Mesonia mobilis, Erwinia rhapontici, Parengyodontium album, Paracoccus, Salinicola zeshunii, Leucobacter luti, Kaistia, Atelocyanobacterium (UCYN-A) thalassa, Oikopleura albicans, Euchaeta rimana, Pseudoclavibacter, Providencia rettgeri, Citricoccus, Labidocera detruncata, Idiomarina loihiensis, Scolecithrix danae, Martelella endophytica, Canuella perplexa, Owenia fusiformis, Photobacterium rosenbergii, Vibrio harveyi, Sulfitobacter dubius, Alteromonas macleodii, Undinula vulgaris, Polaribacter dokdonensis, Alteromonas hispanica, Vibrio splendidus, Muricauda, Fangia hongkongensis, Clytia noliformis, Thalassotalea coralli, Photobacterium aphoticum, Gari maculosa, Geotrichum candidum, Spirotontonia grandis, Chrysopetalum debile, Vibrio panuliri, Flavobacterium, Romboutsia sedimentorum, Leuconostoc pseudomesenteroides, Flammeovirga aprica, Calocalanus styliremis, Tenacibaculum, Climacocylis scalaroides, Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus, Pontella fera, Joostella marina, Maribacter, Alteromonas genovensis, Marinobacter manganoxydans, Idiomarina baltica, Dokdonia genika, Nanozoanthus harenaceus, Sphingomonas, Shewanella, Colwellia meonggei, Shewanella schlegeliana, Pantachogon haeckeli, Corynebacterium, Diphyes dispar, Pinctada maculata, Malleus albus, Rosacea flaccida, Cutibacterium, Kocuria, Hyphomonas adhaerens, Cycloclasticus, Vibrio ponticus, Labrenzia, Tenacibaculum amylolyticum, Corynebacterium pilbarense, Ferrimonas marina, Umbilicosphaera sibogae, Flammeovirga yaeyamensis, Ruegeria profundi, Syracosphaera pulchra, Vibrio coralliilyticus, Vibrio diabolicus, Helicosphaera carteri, Clausocalanus parapergens, Dokdonia, Lautropia mirabilis, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Granulicatella, Vibrio gigantis, Halomonas sulfidaeris, Phyllodoce groenlandica, Forskalia asymmetrica, Roseomonas, Alcanivorax, Marinobacter oulmenensis, Scyphosphaera apsteinii, Oncaea mediterranea, Pseudomonas pachastrellae, Brachybacterium, Oceanicaulis stylophorae, Bestiolina similis, Epiplocyloides ralumensis, Oithona simplex, Clausocalanus farrani, Wukongibacter baidiensis, Paracalanus gracilis, Pterocirrus montereyensis, Nanomia bijuga, Candacia bipinnata, Geryonia proboscidalis, Pantoea, Mesoflavibacter sabulilitoris, Salpingacantha undata, Chaetoceros mannaii, Rothia mucilaginosa, Pachos punctatum, Mesorhizobium, Chloroparvula japonica, Pseudo-nitzschia multistriata, Chloropicon laureae, Clausocalanus jobei, Cephalothrix filiformis, Hyalophysa lwoffi, Algicola bacteriolytica, Strombidium cf. basimorphum, Pseudoalteromonas ruthenica, Vibrio penaeicida, Paracoccus oceanense, Oleibacter marinus, Hortaea werneckii, Chaetoceros rostratus, Strombidinopsis acuminata, Euplotes nobilii, Lynnella semiglobulosa, Sapphirina opalina, Bolinopsis aff. vitrea SBJ-2021, Thalassospira lucentensis, Alteromonas litorea, Skeletonema menzelii, Thalassolituus oleivorans, Micromonas pusilla, Erythrobacter, Curtobacterium, Corynebacterium minutissimum, Endozoicomonas atrinae, Pseudo-nitzschia sabit, Grimontia indica, Acartia amboinensis, Minutocellus polymorphus, Micromonas commoda, Clostridium sensu stricto 11, Bradyrhizobium, Clostridium sensu stricto 1, Actinomyces naeslundii, Photobacterium damselae, Candacia simplex, Vicia villosa, Marinobacter salsuginis, Idiomarina piscisalsi, Klebsiella, Creseis conica, Halomonas taeanensis, Clausocalanus pergens, Steenstrupiella steenstrupii, Clausocalanus ingens, Marinomonas communis, Halioglobus pacificus, Lentisphaera, Amphinome rostrata, Pinus contorta, Mesochaetopterus japonicus, Pleuromamma scutullata, Prymnesium polylepis, Acinetobacter lwoffii, Candacia truncata, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Mycobacterium, Pseudo-nitzschia cuspidata, Chloropicon mariensis, Pareucalanus attenuatus, Eucalanus pseudattenuatus, Chloropicon primus, Thalamita admete, Subeucalanus subcrassus, Triconia conifera, Neisseria, Alcanivorax marinus, Clytia linearis, Oikopleura parva, Pinctada nigra, Streptococcus salivarius, Vibrio chagasii, Klenkia terrae, Candacia ethiopica, Erwinia, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Candida metapsilosis, Styliola subula, Heterorhabdus papilliger, Candacia bispinosa, Gordonia, Stenosemella pacifica, Clytia hummelincki, Aurospio foodbancsia, Marinomonas gallaica, Eucampia groenlandica, Pseudo-nitzschia caciantha.

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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.

Table 1: Table of species sightings