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Ukraine

Statistics

Occurrence records	236,656
Species level	192,697
Species	1,659
Taxa	2,137
Datasets	169
Time range	1860 - 2019

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	1,394
No WoRMS match	5,135
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	5,239
No accepted name available	19,853

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	197,259	0
eventDate	1,993	0
maximumDepthInMeters	62,844	0
minimumDepthInMeters	5,023	0
occurrenceStatus	973	0
scientificName	5	0
scientificNameID	160	5,009

Spatial issues

Records on land	6,845
More than 20 km from shore	2
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	1,567

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Historical zooplankton records from the Black Sea Published 2025-03-20	52,566
Phytoplankton of the Ukrainian Black Sea shelf (1985-2005) Published 2025-03-20	30,818
Phytoplankton in the Coastal Waters of Zmiinyi Island in the Black Sea (2004-2015) Published 2025-03-20	23,595
Mesozooplankton abundance and biomass in Sevastopol Bay and inshore waters off the Crimean Coasts of the Black Sea Published 2025-03-20	15,224
Zooplankton in the Ukrainia Black Sea shelf (1989-2005) Published 2025-03-20	14,676
Phytoplankton of the northern part of the Black Sea 1992-1993 Published 2025-03-20	8,527
Macroalgae of the Crimean coastal zone (Black Sea, 1967-2007) Published 2025-03-20	7,055
YugNIRO-1 - Macrozoobenthos data and accompanied environmental data from the Black Sea Published 2025-03-20	6,532
Phytoplankton monitoring data from a polygon near Belbek River (Black Sea) from 1987 to 1990 Published 2025-03-20	4,731
Phytoplankton data of Sevastopol Bay of the Black Sea during 1972 Published 2025-03-20	3,905

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	13,250
Acartia clausii Giesbrecht, 1892 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	12,132
Paracalanus parvus (Claus, 1863) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	10,717
Calanus euxinus Hulsemann, 1991 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	9,896
Oithona similis Claus, 1866 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	7,425
Oithona nana Giesbrecht, 1893 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	6,363
Protozoa Owen, 1858	5,212
Gephyrocapsa huxleyi (Lohmann) P.Reinhardt, 1972 Phylum Haptophyta > Class Coccolithophyceae	5,117
Parasagitta setosa (J. Müller, 1847) Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea	5,040
Prorocentrum cordatum (Ostenfeld) J.D.Dodge, 1976 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	3,519

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Microdeutopus algicola Della Valle, 1893 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	5	2019
Gyrodinium contortum (Schütt) Kofoid & Swezy, 1921 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	2	2019
Hemidinium nasutum F.Stein, 1878 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	6	2019
Prorocentrum rotundatum Schiller, 1928 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	1	2019
Larus canus Linnaeus, 1758 Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	104	2019
Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	1	2019
Puffinus yelkouan (Acerbi, 1827) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	3	2019
Donacilla cornea (Poli, 1791) Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia	2	2019
Lagis neapolitana (Claparède, 1869) Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	2	2019
Protoperidinium knipowitschii (Usachev, 1927) Balech, 1974 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	2	2019

Data providers

Name	Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	184,569
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, O. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas	117,090
Odessa National I.I. Mechnikov University	56,746
Ukrainian scientific center of Ecology of Sea	31,387
Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea	15,477
Southern Scientific Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography; World Ocean Fisheries Resources Department	6,532
Institute of Marine Biology (IMB), Academy of Science of Ukraine	4,517
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture	4,293
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine , Institute of Marine Biology	4,215
National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa"	3,708