Taman Bay and the Kerch Strait - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Taman Bay and the Kerch Strait

Statistics

Occurrence records	332
Species level	302
Species	55
Taxa	73
Datasets	11
Time range	1914 - 2017

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	4
No WoRMS match	12
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	3
No accepted name available	29

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	343	0
eventDate	1	0
maximumDepthInMeters	249	0
minimumDepthInMeters	148	0
scientificNameID	0	12

Spatial issues

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

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Cetacean sightings in the Black Sea, Sea of Azov and Kerch Strait Published 2025-03-20	143
Phytoplankton of the Ukrainian Black Sea shelf (1985-2005) Published 2025-03-20	79
Zooplankton in the Ukrainia Black Sea shelf (1989-2005) Published 2025-03-20	57
Benthos collected in the Azov Sea during several expeditions in 1934-1935 Published 2025-03-20	21
Zooplankton from the north-eastern Black Sea for 1994-2005 Published 2025-03-20	13
Benthos collected in the Azov Sea in 1935 on board the R/V "N. Danilevskiy" Published 2025-03-20	8
Seagrasses of the Crimean coastal zone (Black Sea, 1960-2009) Published 2025-03-20	5
Data on cetacean strandings on the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea (2017) Published 2018-03-26	3
Cetacean strandings in the northern Black Sea and the Sea of Azov Published 2025-03-20	1
Global Distribution and Diversity of Solenidae Species Published 2025-03-20	1

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
Tursiops truncatus ponticus Barabash-Nikiforov, 1940 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	111
Phocoena phocoena relicta Abel, 1905 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	33
Acartia clausii Giesbrecht, 1892 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	21
Paracalanus parvus (Claus, 1863) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	14
Skeletonema costatum (Greville) Cleve, 1873 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	14
Pseudocalanus elongatus (Brady, 1865) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	10
Thalassiosira baltica (Grunow) Ostenfeld, 1901 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	6
Balanus Costa, 1778 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Thecostraca	5
Bivalvia Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia	4
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	4

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Leptocylindrus minimus Gran, 1915 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	2	2005
Thalassionema nitzschioides (Grunow) Mereschkowsky, 1902 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	4	2005
Chaetoceros socialis H.S.Lauder, 1864 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	2	2005
Nitzschia longissima (Brébisson) Ralfs, 1861 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	2	2005
Chaetoceros simplex Ostenfeld, 1902 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	2	2005
Cocconeis scutellum Ehrenberg, 1838 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	4	2005
Thalassiosira baltica (Grunow) Ostenfeld, 1901 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	6	2005
Coscinodiscopsis jonesiana (Greville) E.A.Sar & I.Sunesen, 2008 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	3	2005
Ochromonas oblonga N.Carter, 1937 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Chrysophyceae	3	2005
Octactis speculum (Ehrenberg) F.H.Chang, J.M.Grieve & J.E.Sutherland, 2017 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Dictyochophyceae	2	2005

Data providers

Name	Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	327
Brema Laboratory	144
Odessa National I.I. Mechnikov University	79
Ukrainian scientific center of Ecology of Sea	57
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, O. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas	35
Russian Academy of Sciences P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology	13
Russian Academy of Sciences; P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology	13
Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea	3
National Academy of Sciences – I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology	3
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences	1