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Türkiye

Statistics

Occurrence records	24,294
Species level	17,457
Species	1,213
Taxa	1,643
Datasets	130
Time range	1841 - 2022

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	121
No WoRMS match	660
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	1,083
No accepted name available	1,936

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	23,062	134
eventDate	783	0
maximumDepthInMeters	5,967	0
minimumDepthInMeters	3,691	0
occurrenceStatus	2,430	0
scientificName	10	0
scientificNameID	459	419

Spatial issues

Records on land	1,077
More than 20 km from shore	2
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	534

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Historical zooplankton records from the Black Sea Published 2025-03-20	4,088
Phytoplankton data collected from diurnal stations in the halistatic region of the Black Sea during April and July 1957 Published 2025-03-20	2,334
MICROBIS Database (version 1) - European data Published	1,907
Phytoplankton data collected in the Black Sea, Bosphorus area, Marmara Sea, Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, Tunisian Strait, and Mediterranean Sea during the 65th cruise of the R/V "Kovalevskiy" in 1969-1970 Published 2025-03-20	1,718
SNU-FF Phytoplankton and zooplankton (1999-2010) Published 2025-03-20	1,254
IBSS historical data from different cruises Published 2025-03-20	1,052
SNU-FF Meiobenthos (2009-2010) Published 2025-03-20	960
Phytoplankton data collected in deep waters of the halistatic region of the Black Sea in September 1948 Published 2025-03-20	807
Phytoplankton data collected from the Black Sea during November 1957 (Cruise 2) Published 2025-03-20	764
Phytoplankton data collected from the North-Western part of the Black Sea during August 1957 (Cruise 2) Published 2025-03-20	760

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
Pseudocalanus elongatus (Brady, 1865) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1,164
Acartia clausii Giesbrecht, 1892 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	746
Paracalanus parvus (Claus, 1863) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	671
Calanus euxinus Hulsemann, 1991 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	670
Protozoa Owen, 1858	631
Oithona similis Claus, 1866 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	613
Gephyrocapsa huxleyi (Lohmann) P.Reinhardt, 1972 Phylum Haptophyta > Class Coccolithophyceae	594
Prorocentrum cordatum (Ostenfeld) J.D.Dodge, 1976 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	563
Oithona nana Giesbrecht, 1893 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	469
Cyclotella caspia Grunow, 1878 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	407

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Erinaceusyllis defneae Çinar & Erdoğan-Dereli̇, 2023 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	1	2022
Polycirrus karadenizicus Çinar & Erdoğan-Dereli̇, 2023 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	1	2022
Polycirrus rhombolabiatus Çinar & Erdoğan-Dereli̇, 2023 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	1	2022
Thalassiosira gravida Cleve, 1896 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	1	2021
Euplectella suberea Thomson, 1876 Phylum Porifera > Class Hexactinellida	1	2019
Larus canus Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	6	2019
Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	1	2019
Puffinus yelkouan (Acerbi, 1827) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	3	2019
Echinoderes shahmaranae Sørensen, Herranz, Pardos & Durucan, 2021 Phylum Kinorhyncha > Class Cyclorhagida	1	2019
Chondrosia reniformis Nardo, 1847 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	2	2018

Data providers

Name	Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	16,335
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, O. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas	15,138
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture	3,809
Sinop University, Fisheries Faculty	3,475
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	2,097
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	1,907
Ukrainian scientific center of Ecology of Sea	568
National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa"	308
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen	258
Duke University	223