Danube Delta Marine Area

Statistics

Occurrence records 24,724
Species level 20,147
Species 439
Taxa 603
Datasets 34
Time range 1954 - 2019

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 769
No WoRMS match 1,540
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 1,520
No accepted name available 2,917

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 26,539 0
eventDate 75 0
maximumDepthInMeters 189 0
minimumDepthInMeters 189 0
occurrenceStatus 92 0
scientificName 6 0
scientificNameID 23 1,530

Spatial issues

Records on land 3
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 8

Distribution

Disclaimer: EEZ boundaries based on Marine Regions (no endorsement).

Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Acartia (Acartiura) clausii Giesbrecht, 1892
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
3,522
Balanus Costa, 1778
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Thecostraca
1,048
Pseudocalanus elongatus (Brady, 1865)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
945
Parasagitta setosa (J. Müller, 1847)
Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea
924
Bivalvia Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
755
Oithona nana Giesbrecht, 1893
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
579
Pleopis polyphemoides (Leuckart, 1859)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Branchiopoda
532
Paracalanus parvus parvus (Claus, 1863)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
455
Polychaeta Grube, 1850
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
412
Noctiluca scintillans (Macartney) Kofoid & Swezy, 1921
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
387

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Larus ridibundus Linnaeus, 1766
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1 2019
Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
5 2019
Phalacrocorax pygmaeus (Pallas, 1773)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
2 2019
Pseudocuma (Pseudocuma) longicorne (Bate, 1858)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2014
Leucocephalonemertes aurantiaca (Grube, 1855)
Phylum Nemertea > Class Pilidiophora
1 2014
Nephtys cirrosa Ehlers, 1868
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
5 2014
Melita palmata (Montagu, 1804)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2013
Pachygrapsus marmoratus (Fabricius, 1787)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2013
Oithona davisae Ferrari F.D. & Orsi, 1984
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
3 2013
Amphiporus bioculatus McIntosh, 1874
Phylum Nemertea > Class Hoplonemertea
5 2013

Data providers

Name Records
National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa" 23,820
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 7,178
Ministère de la Défense nationale; Marine 6,555
National Research and Development Institute for Marine Geology and Geoecology 614
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, O. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas 113
Mare Nostrum NGO 90
Duke University 70
The Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS) and Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) 70
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute 43
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle / IRD 20