Fehmarn Belt

Statistics

Occurrence records 60,698
Species level 57,521
Species 596
Taxa 722
Datasets 23
Time range 1873 - 2022

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 114
No WoRMS match 566
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 255
No accepted name available 713

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 61,357 18
eventDate 3 0
maximumDepthInMeters 27,326 0
minimumDepthInMeters 27,262 0
occurrenceStatus 2 0
scientificNameID 277 297

Spatial issues

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

Top datasets

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Limanda limanda (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
7,796
Gadus morhua Linnaeus, 1758 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
7,556
Somateria mollissima (Linnaeus, 1758) NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
4,445
Clupea harengus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
3,542
Platichthys flesus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2,917
Merlangius merlangus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2,716
Larus argentatus Pontoppidan, 1763
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
2,525
Sprattus sprattus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2,374
Pleuronectes platessa Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2,171
Clangula hyemalis (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1,805

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Palaemon elegans Rathke, 1836
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2016
Pegusa lascaris (Risso, 1810)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
4 2016
Enipo kinbergi Malmgren, 1865
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
2 2016
Prionospio fallax Söderström, 1920
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
4 2016
Lysilla loveni Malmgren, 1866
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
5 2016
Spisula subtruncata (da Costa, 1778)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
2 2016
Spio arndti Meißner, Bick & Bastrop, 2011
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
3 2016
Pandalus montagui Leach, 1814
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2015
Gymnodinium ostenfeldii J.Schiller, 1928
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
1 2015
Merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2015

Data providers

Name Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 60,667
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea 56,622
Bureau Waardenburg bv – Ecology & Landscape 13,058
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Research and Technology Centre 13,058
Vlaamse overheid; Beleidsdomein Omgeving; Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek 13,058
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde 3,950
Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science 1,642
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences 62
Duke University 19
Marine Conservation Research Ltd 18