Species occurrence database for the Gulf of California, described in Morzaria-Luna et al. 2018. Biodiversity hotspots are not congruent with conservation areas in the Gulf of California. Biodiversity and Conservation.

We generated a comprehensive database of existing species occurrence records for the Gulf of California by harnessing the expanded biodiversity informatics infrastructure and recently developed analytical tools for data processing. We obtained species occurrence points for all available taxa in marine and coastal areas in the Gulf of California within the polygon bounded by 32.139900, 20.164036 N and -115.142516, -104.95342. We gathered 286,533 occurrence records belonging to 12,105 unique species, including 6388 species identified as rare, 642 as endemic, and 386 as threatened. The records were used to identify biodiversity hotspots and determine the spatial congruence between current protected areas, and between priority areas selected through previous systematic conservation planning exercises. The R code used for the analysis is available from https://github.com/hmorzaria/biodiversity. Morzaria_et_al_GOC_biodiversity_recs.csv. Georeferrenced records for the Gulf of California. Morzaria_et_al_GOC_endemic_species.csv. Georeferrenced records for endemic species Morzaria_et_al_GOC_rare_species.csv. Georeferrenced records for rare species Morzaria_et_al_GOC_threatened_species.csv. Georeferrenced records for threatened species