Israel

Statistics

Occurrence records 45,105
Species level 40,288
Species 680
Taxa 912
Datasets 62
Time range 1902 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 43
No WoRMS match 215
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 4
No accepted name available 4

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 22,003 1
eventDate 6,050 0
maximumDepthInMeters 39,870 0
minimumDepthInMeters 38,076 0
occurrenceStatus 407 0
scientificName 6 0
scientificNameID 464 17

Spatial issues

Records on land 2,605
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 1,228

Distribution

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

Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Rhopilema nomadica Galil, Spanier & Ferguson, 1990
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Scyphozoa
9,797
Siganus rivulatus Forsskål & Niebuhr, 1775
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
7,021
Rhizostoma pulmo (Macri, 1778)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Scyphozoa
1,966
Mnemiopsis leidyi A. Agassiz, 1865
Phylum Ctenophora > Class Tentaculata
1,402
Phyllorhiza punctata von Lendenfeld, 1884
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Scyphozoa
1,182
Pagellus erythrinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
571
Boops boops (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
533
Saurida undosquamis (Richardson, 1848)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
484
Loligo vulgaris Lamarck, 1798
Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda
395
Upeneus moluccensis (Bleeker, 1855)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
379

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Aequorea forskalea Péron & Lesueur, 1810
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
78 2019
Chrysaora pseudoocellata Mutlu, Çağatay, Olguner & Yilmaz, 2020
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Scyphozoa
21 2019
Joculator problematicus Albano & Steger, 2021
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
1 2018
Porpita porpita (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
61 2016
Cotylorhiza erythraea Stiasny, 1920
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Scyphozoa
151 2016
Cestum veneris Lesueur, 1813
Phylum Ctenophora > Class Tentaculata
30 2015
Velella velella (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa
2 2015
Hemiasterella verae Idan, Shefer, Feldstein & Ilan, 2021
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
2 2015
Plakortis mesophotica Idan, Shefer, Feldstein & Ilan, 2021
Phylum Porifera > Class Homoscleromorpha
2 2015
Marivagia stellata Galil & Gershwin, 2010
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Scyphozoa
91 2014

Data providers

Name Records
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture 19,333
HCMR-IMBBC 15,953
University of Haifa, Ruppin Academic Center 15,953
Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research 13,989
Tel Aviv University, Department of Zoology 13,941
Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, the Hebrew University 13,941
The Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, University of Haifa 13,941
The Maritime Studies Program, Williams College 13,941
Ocean Tracking Network 6,984
Ben Gurion University and the Inter-University Institute for Marine Science 6,984