South Adriatic Ionian Strait - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

South Adriatic Ionian Strait

Statistics

Occurrence records	12,380
Species level	7,147
Species	740
Taxa	975
Datasets	74
Time range	1891 - 2019

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	65
No WoRMS match	125
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	183
No accepted name available	1,106

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	16,129	86
eventDate	1,548	0
maximumDepthInMeters	1,829	0
minimumDepthInMeters	323	0
occurrenceStatus	56	0
scientificName	1	0
scientificNameID	13	114

Spatial issues

Records on land	0
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	7

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Phytoplankton South Adriatic-PRISMA1-Flussi Project Published 2025-03-20	2,636
IBSS historical data from different cruises Published 2025-03-20	2,327
Microzooplankton South Adriatic-PRISMA1-Flussi Project Published 2025-03-20	1,738
PANGAEA - Data from Climatic variability of the Mediterranean Paleo-circulation (CLIVAMP) Published 2025-03-20	1,450
Phytoplankton in the South Adriatic Sea (MEDGES Experiment) 2013 Published 2025-03-20	1,041
Mesozooplankton South Adriatic-PRISMA1-Flussi Project Published 2025-03-20	461
Phytoplankton Adriatic-SESAME Project Published 2025-03-20	353
Phytoplankton in the South Adriatic Sea (ADREX Experiment) 2014 Published 2025-03-20	320
Trawl-survey data from the “expedition Hvar” in the Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean) collected in 1948-1949 Published 2025-03-20	292
World Ocean Database 2009 Published 2020-11-17	211

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
Bacillariophyceae Haeckel, 1878 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	228
Biota	212
Coccolithophyceae Rothmaler, 1951 Phylum Haptophyta > Class Coccolithophyceae	211
Dinophyceae Fritsch, 1927 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	202
Globigerina bulloides d'Orbigny, 1826 Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	192
Globigerinoides ruber (d'Orbigny, 1839) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	185
Turborotalita quinqueloba (Natland, 1938) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	180
Protozoa Owen, 1858	177
Globigerinita glutinata (Egger, 1893) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	177
Neogloboquadrina Bandy, Frerichs & Vincent, 1967 Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	171

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier, 1823 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	2018
Puffinus yelkouan (Acerbi, 1827) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	3	2015
Prorocentrum vaginulum (Ehrenberg) Dodge Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	3	2014
Chaetoceros costatus Pavillard, 1911 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	1	2014
Ollicola vangoorii (W.Conrad) Vørs, 1992	1	2014
Ceratolithus cristatus Kamptner, 1954 Phylum Haptophyta > Class Haptophyta incertae sedis	1	2014
Helicosphaera hyalina Gaarder, 1970	1	2014
Karenia papilionacea A.J.Haywood & K.A.Steidinger, 2004 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	1	2014
Azadinium caudatum (Halldal) Nézan & Chomérat, 2012 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	1	2014
Chaetoceros compressus Cleve, 1894 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	1	2014

Data providers

Name	Records
National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics	7,416
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	6,955
University of Trieste – Marine Biology Laboratory	4,835
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, O. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas	2,328
Sorbonne Université	369
Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche-sur-Mer	369
Tara Oceans Consortium	368
Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research — Branch office Chioggia	350
European Bioinformatics Institute	229
U.S. Geological Survey HQ	221