North Aegean

Statistics

Occurrence records 24,544
Species level 20,917
Species 2,295
Taxa 2,531
Datasets 63
Time range 1893 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 66
No WoRMS match 340
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 101
No accepted name available 635

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 24,256 59
eventDate 5,593 0
maximumDepthInMeters 13,817 2
minimumDepthInMeters 9,366 0
occurrenceStatus 506 0
scientificName 5 0
scientificNameID 280 108

Spatial issues

Records on land 620
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 1,058

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Dinoflagellata
Phylum Myzozoa
323
Polychaeta Grube, 1850
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
142
Globigerinoides ruber (d'Orbigny, 1839)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
121
Dexamine spinosa (Montagu, 1813)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
117
Bittium latreillii (Payraudeau, 1826)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
109
Bivalvia Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
103
Nereis rava Ehlers, 1868
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
102
Amphipoda Latreille, 1816
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
100
Syllis hyalina Grube, 1863
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
98
Agelas oroides (Schmidt, 1864)
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
98

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Clavelina dellavallei (Zirpolo, 1925)
Phylum Chordata > Class Ascidiacea
2 2021
Aplidium elegans (Giard, 1872)
Phylum Chordata > Class Ascidiacea
5 2021
Peltaster placenta (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea
5 2021
Hacelia attenuata Gray, 1840
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea
5 2021
Ophidiaster ophidianus (Lamarck, 1816)
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea
4 2021
Arbacia lixula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Echinoidea
2 2021
Thalassoma pavo (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2021
Anthias anthias (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
5 2021
Hexadella racovitzai Topsent, 1896
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
4 2021
Chrysymenia ventricosa (J.V.Lamouroux) J.Agardh, 1842
Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae
4 2021

Data providers

Name Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 14,824
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture 12,380
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 6,434
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, O. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas 2,961
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Department of Biology - Laboratory of Zoology 2,872
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Department of Biology Laboratory of Zoology 2,248
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Oceanography 2,016
Demokritos, Institute of Biosciences and Applications 2,016
National Observatory of Athens, Institute for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development 2,016
National Agricultural Research Foundation Fisheries Research Institute 555