Northern Part of the Caucasian Black Sea Coast - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Northern Part of the Caucasian Black Sea Coast

Statistics

Occurrence records	5,186
Species level	3,409
Species	169
Taxa	236
Datasets	12
Time range	1870 - 2005

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	6
No WoRMS match	23
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	14
No accepted name available	310

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	5,215	0
eventDate	5	0
maximumDepthInMeters	342	0
minimumDepthInMeters	30	0
scientificNameID	1	22

Spatial issues

Records on land	0
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	23

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Zooplankton from the north-eastern Black Sea for 1994-2005 Published 2025-03-20	3,953
YugNIRO-1 - Macrozoobenthos data and accompanied environmental data from the Black Sea Published 2025-03-20	416
Historical zooplankton records from the Black Sea Published 2025-03-20	188
Phytoplankton of the Ukrainian Black Sea shelf (1985-2005) Published 2025-03-20	179
Zooplankton in the Ukrainia Black Sea shelf (1989-2005) Published 2025-03-20	157
Phytoplankton of the northern part of the Black Sea 1992-1993 Published 2025-03-20	124
Phytoplankton data collected in the Black Sea during 107 cruise of the R/V "Kovalevskiy" Published 2025-03-20	99
Cetacean sightings in the Black Sea, Sea of Azov and Kerch Strait Published 2025-03-20	25
Global benthic biogeographical regions and macroecological drivers for ophiuroids [Data set] Published 2023-11-30	19
“Phytoplankton and Zooplankton data collected during the Black Sea cruises of UkrSCES R/V "Ernst Krenkel" in 1992” Published 2017-11-01	15

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa

Scientific name	Records
Calanus euxinus Hulsemann, 1991 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	410
Parasagitta setosa (J. Müller, 1847) Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea	294
Acartia clausii Giesbrecht, 1892 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	255
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	210
Pseudocalanus elongatus (Brady, 1865) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	192
Bivalvia Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia	178
Oikopleura (Vexillaria) dioica Fol, 1872 Phylum Chordata > Class Appendicularia	177
Noctiluca scintillans (Macartney) Kofoid & Swezy, 1921 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	169
Paracalanus parvus (Claus, 1863) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	167
Polychaeta Grube, 1850 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	164

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Acartia (Acanthacartia) tonsa Dana, 1849-1852 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2004
Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	8	2003
Parasagitta elegans (Verrill, 1873) Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea	4	2002
Cyclopina gracilis Claus, 1863 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	3	2002
Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	11	2002
Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	6	2002
Podonevadne trigona (G.O. Sars, 1897) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Branchiopoda	5	2002
Pontella mediterranea (Claus, 1863) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	15	2001
Aurelia aurita (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Scyphozoa	7	2001
Beroe ovata Bruguière, 1789 Phylum Ctenophora > Class Nuda	119	2001

Data providers

Name	Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	5,147
Russian Academy of Sciences P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology	3,953
Russian Academy of Sciences; P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology	3,953
Southern Scientific Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography; World Ocean Fisheries Resources Department	416
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, O. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas	287
Ukrainian scientific center of Ecology of Sea	281
Odessa National I.I. Mechnikov University	179
Brema Laboratory	25
Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea	20
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	19