Ropotamo - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Ropotamo

Statistics

Occurrence records	3,093
Species level	2,627
Species	266
Taxa	351
Datasets	12
Time range	1988 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	3
No WoRMS match	72
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	60
No accepted name available	175

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	1,821	99
eventDate	1	0
maximumDepthInMeters	149	0
minimumDepthInMeters	103	0
occurrenceStatus	2	0
scientificNameID	1	72

Spatial issues

Records on land	48
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	34

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Phytoplankton abundance and biomass data from 2007 to 2016 in the Bulgarian Black Sea Published 2025-03-20	765
Phytoplankton-BG Black Sea-2007-2016 Published 2019-08-26	765
Soft-bottom macrozoobenthos from the coastal Bulgarian Black Sea (2013-2014) Published 2021-06-30	593
Green Balkans Cetacean monitoring surveys in the Bulgarian Black Sea waters Published 2025-03-20	310
Soft-bottom macrozoobenthos from the littoral zone of the Natura 2000 MPA "Ropotamo", Southern Bulgarian Black Sea (2013) Published 2021-06-30	195
Historical zooplankton records from the Black Sea Published 2025-03-20	143
Infauna from seagrass meadows in the coastal Bulgarian Black Sea (2013-2014) Published 2021-06-30	126
Green Balkans NGO's cetacean strandings on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast Published 2023-01-19	99
Macrobenthos data from the Romanian part of the Black Sea between 2003 and 2011 Published 2025-03-20	50
Phytoplankton of the northern part of the Black Sea 1992-1993 Published 2025-03-20	23

Distribution

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

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
Phocoena phocoena relicta Abel, 1905 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	278
Delphinus delphis ponticus Barabasch-Nikiforov, 1935 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	61
Tursiops truncatus ponticus Barabash-Nikiforov, 1940 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	49
Gephyrocapsa huxleyi (Lohmann) P.Reinhardt, 1972 Phylum Haptophyta > Class Coccolithophyceae	48
Prorocentrum cordatum (Ostenfeld) J.D.Dodge, 1976 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	42
Thalassionema nitzschioides (Grunow) Mereschkowsky, 1902 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	38
Prorocentrum micans Ehrenberg, 1834 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	36
Tripos furca (Ehrenberg) F.Gómez, 2013 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	36
Pseudo-nitzschia delicatissima (Cleve) Heiden, 1928 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	34
Tripos fusus (Ehrenberg) F.Gómez, 2013 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	34

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Cochlodinium pupa Lebour, 1925 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	2	2016
Gymnodinium pulchrum J.Schiller, 1928 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	2	2016
Gymnodinium rubrum Koifoid & Swezy, 1921 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	6	2016
Torodinium robustum Kofoid & Swezy, 1921 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	2	2016
Protoperidinium subinerme (Paulsen) Loeblich III, 1969 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	4	2016
Leptocylindrus danicus Cleve, 1889 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	4	2016
Chaetoceros affinis Lauder, 1864 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	10	2016
Gymnodinium punctatum Pouchet, 1887 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	4	2016
Chaetoceros aequatorialis Cleve, 1873 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	4	2016
Thalassionema frauenfeldii (Grunow) Tempère & Peragallo, 1910 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	4	2016

Data providers

Name	Records
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences –The Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research	914
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research	914
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oceanology	765
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Institute of Oceanology; Marine Biology and Ecology	765
Institute of Oceanology-BAS	765
Federation of Nature Conservation NGO's Green Balkans	310
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	239
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, O. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas	143
Duke University	99
Green Balkans NGO	99