Russia: Black Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records 31,222
Species level 22,818
Species 391
Taxa 529
Datasets 33
Time range 1868 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 53
No WoRMS match 139
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 527
No accepted name available 1,593

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 30,991 0
eventDate 15 0
maximumDepthInMeters 8,237 0
minimumDepthInMeters 277 0
occurrenceStatus 6 0
scientificNameID 9 133

Spatial issues

Records on land 379
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 161

Distribution

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

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Pseudocalanus elongatus (Brady, 1865)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
1,739
Calanus euxinus Hulsemann, 1991
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
1,611
Calanus helgolandicus ponticus Jaschnov, 1955
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
1,455
Acartia clausii Giesbrecht, 1892
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
1,400
Oithona similis Claus, 1866
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
1,090
Parasagitta setosa (J. Müller, 1847)
Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea
1,045
Gephyrocapsa huxleyi (Lohmann) P.Reinhardt, 1972
Phylum Haptophyta > Class Coccolithophyceae
881
Noctiluca scintillans (Macartney) Kofoid & Swezy, 1921
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
846
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
677
Paracalanus parvus (Claus, 1863)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
655

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Litorogammarus mazestiensis (Marin & Palatov, 2021)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2019
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata
1 2018
Acartia (Acanthacartia) tonsa Dana, 1849-1852
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
8 2004
Parasagitta elegans (Verrill, 1873)
Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea
5 2002
Cyclopina gracilis Claus, 1863
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
3 2002
Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
73 2002
Podonevadne trigona (G.O. Sars, 1897)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Branchiopoda
6 2002
Aurelia aurita (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Scyphozoa
27 2001
Beroe ovata Bruguière, 1789
Phylum Ctenophora > Class Nuda
196 2001
Paramysis (Serrapalpisis) sowinskii Daneliya, 2002
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2000

Data providers

Name Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 30,041
Russian Academy of Sciences P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology 9,144
Russian Academy of Sciences; P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology 9,144
Ukrainian scientific center of Ecology of Sea 8,795
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, O. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas 8,444
Odessa National I.I. Mechnikov University 3,102
Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea 774
Southern Scientific Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography; World Ocean Fisheries Resources Department 652
Brema Laboratory 241
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure 33