Vama Veche - 2 Mai Marine Reserve - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Vama Veche - 2 Mai Marine Reserve

Statistics

Occurrence records	5,615
Species level	4,325
Species	215
Taxa	260
Datasets	12
Time range	1954 - 2019

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	34
No WoRMS match	53
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	158
No accepted name available	299

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	5,702	0
maximumDepthInMeters	26	0
minimumDepthInMeters	26	0
scientificNameID	0	53

Spatial issues

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

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Romanian Black Sea Zooplankton data from 1981 to 2000 Published 2025-03-20	2,508
Romanian Black Sea Zooplankton data from 2001 to 2010 Published 2025-03-20	1,300
Romanian Black Sea Phytoplankton data from 2001 to 2005 Published 2025-03-20	867
Romanian Black Sea Zooplankton data from 2011 to 2015 Published 2025-03-20	635
Macrobenthos data from the Romanian part of the Black Sea between 2003 and 2011 Published 2025-03-20	157
Romanian Black Sea Phytoplankton data from 1961 to 1970 Published 2025-03-20	107
Strandings along Romanian Black Sea coasts 2010-2016 Published	23
Zooplankton data collected in the Romanian Black Sea waters between 1961 and 1969 Published 2025-03-20	10
Historical benthos data from the Romanian Black Sea Coast between 1954 and 1968 Published 2025-03-20	4
Sea birds sightings in the Black Sea recorded by CeNoBS Aerial Expedition in 2019 Published 2025-03-20	2

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
Acartia (Acartiura) clausii Giesbrecht, 1892 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1,109
Balanus Costa, 1778 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Thecostraca	413
Parasagitta setosa (J. Müller, 1847) Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea	299
Pseudocalanus elongatus (Brady, 1865) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	260
Paracalanus parvus parvus (Claus, 1863) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	251
Bivalvia Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia	243
Polychaeta Grube, 1850 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	182
Oikopleura (Vexillaria) dioica Fol, 1872 Phylum Chordata > Class Appendicularia	169
Pleopis polyphemoides (Leuckart, 1859) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Branchiopoda	168
Oithona nana Giesbrecht, 1893 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	166

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Larus canus Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	1	2019
Daphnia cucullata G.O. Sars, 1862 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Branchiopoda	2	2013
Daphnia longispina (O.F. Müller, 1776) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Branchiopoda	2	2013
Chydorus sphaericus (O.F. Müller, 1776) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Branchiopoda	2	2013
Hippocampus guttulatus Cuvier, 1829 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2013
Diaphanosoma brachyurum (Liévin, 1848) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Branchiopoda	2	2013
Moina micrura Kurz, 1875 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Branchiopoda	2	2013
Oithona davisae Ferrari F.D. & Orsi, 1984 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	6	2013
Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	4	2011
Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	3	2011

Data providers

Name	Records
National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa"	5,427
Ministère de la Défense nationale; Marine	2,508
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	1,773
National Research and Development Institute for Marine Geology and Geoecology	161
Mare Nostrum NGO	26
Duke University	24
The Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS) and Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS)	24
Federation of Nature Conservation NGO's Green Balkans	2
Turkish Marine Research Foundation	2
Ukrainian scientific center of Ecology of Sea	2