Romania

Statistics

Occurrence records 225,739
Species level 186,310
Species 903
Taxa 1,235
Datasets 78
Time range 1927 - 2021

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 2,345
No WoRMS match 5,083
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 10,358
No accepted name available 23,521

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 222,045 12
eventDate 282 0
maximumDepthInMeters 2,506 0
minimumDepthInMeters 1,185 0
occurrenceStatus 321 0
scientificName 28 0
scientificNameID 155 4,980

Spatial issues

Records on land 878
More than 20 km from shore 17
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 193

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
Acartia (Acartiura) clausii Giesbrecht, 1892
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
25,835
Pseudocalanus elongatus (Brady, 1865)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
12,012
Parasagitta setosa (J. Müller, 1847)
Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea
9,408
Oithona nana Giesbrecht, 1893
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
7,467
Bivalvia Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
7,111
Balanus Costa, 1778
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Thecostraca
7,018
Paracalanus parvus parvus (Claus, 1863)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
6,064
Oithona similis Claus, 1866
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
5,560
Oikopleura (Vexillaria) dioica Fol, 1872
Phylum Chordata > Class Appendicularia
5,172
Pleopis polyphemoides (Leuckart, 1859)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Branchiopoda
3,996

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Plagioselmis prolonga Butcher ex G.Novarino, I.A.N.Lucas & S.Morrall, 1994
Phylum Cryptophyta > Class Cryptophyceae
1 2019
Larus canus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
31 2019
Larus ridibundus Linnaeus, 1766
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1 2019
Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
6 2019
Puffinus yelkouan (Acerbi, 1827) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
4 2019
Prorocentrum ponticus Krachmalny & Terenko, 2002
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
3 2019
Gyrodinium cornutum (Pouchet) Kofoid & Swezy, 1921
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
3 2019
Phalacrocorax pygmaeus (Pallas, 1773)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
2 2019
Tetraselmis inconspicua Butcher, 1959
Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Chlorodendrophyceae
3 2019
Ichthyaetus melanocephalus (Temminck, 1820)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
5 2019

Data providers

Name Records
National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa" 205,478
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 65,079
Ministère de la Défense nationale; Marine 57,291
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, O. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas 7,771
National Research and Development Institute for Marine Geology and Geoecology 7,645
Ukrainian scientific center of Ecology of Sea 1,639
Mare Nostrum NGO 793
Duke University 696
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) 696
Odessa National I.I. Mechnikov University 694