Libya - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Libya

Statistics

Occurrence records	4,935
Species level	4,365
Species	341
Taxa	539
Datasets	72
Time range	1870 - 2019

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	14
No WoRMS match	364
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	11
No accepted name available	13

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	4,230	408
eventDate	1,436	0
maximumDepthInMeters	4,299	0
minimumDepthInMeters	2,825	0
occurrenceStatus	751	0
scientificName	9	0
scientificNameID	188	324

Spatial issues

Records on land	79
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	15

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Satellite-tracking of loggerhead sea turtles tracked from western Mediterranean Published 2025-03-20	1,301
PANGAEA - Data from Tübingen University Published 2025-03-20	610
Loggerhead satellite tracking data from Rethymno, Crete, Greece Published 2021-04-24	408
PANGAEA - Data from Climatic variability of the Mediterranean Paleo-circulation (CLIVAMP) Published 2025-03-20	339
PANGAEA - Data from University Bremen Published 2025-03-20	311
National Institute of Marine Sciences and Technologies - Trawling surveys Published 2020-12-02	264
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	156
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	146
Occurrence of Eukaryotes in the size fraction >300 micrometres, collected worldwide during the Tara Oceans expedition (2009-2013) using a Bongo net and analysed on a ZooScan imaging platform Published 2025-03-20	145
PANGAEA - Data from various sources Published 2025-03-20	134

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
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU Phylum Chordata	1,984
Globigerinoides ruber (d'Orbigny, 1839) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	644
Thoracosphaera heimii (Lohmann) Kamptner, 1944 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	98
Lebessphaera urania K.J.S.Meier, Janofske & Willems, 2002 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	88
Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) EN Phylum Chordata	71
Calciodinellum albatrosianum (Kamptner) Janofske & Karwath, 2000 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	60
Scrippsiella regalis (K.R.Gaarder) D.Janofske, 2000 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	55
Gonichthys cocco (Cocco, 1829) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	32
Scrippsiella acuminata (Ehrenberg) Kretschmann, Elbrächter, Zinssmeister, S.Soehner, Kirsch, Kusber & Gottschling, 2015 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	32
Globigerina bulloides d'Orbigny, 1826 Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	30

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Naucrates ductor (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2013
Pomadasys incisus (Bowdich, 1825) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2013
Siganus luridus (Rüppell, 1829) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2013
Siganus rivulatus Forsskål & Niebuhr, 1775 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2013
Pempheris rhomboidea Kossmann & Räuber, 1877 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2013
Lagocephalus lagocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2011
Fistularia commersonii Rüppell, 1838 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	4	2010
Calocalanus pavo (Dana, 1849-1852) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	6	2009
Pontellina plumata Dana, 1849-1852 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	7	2009
Abylopsis tetragona (Otto, 1823) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	6	2009

Data providers

Name	Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	3,181
Technical University of Valencia; Department of Transportation Infrastructures and Engineering	1,301
Duke University	722
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen	610
Coonamessett Farm Foundation	408
Sorbonne Université	393
Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche-sur-Mer	393
Tara Oceans Consortium	393
University of Bremen	311
SEATURTLE.ORG	305