Bulgaria

Statistics

Occurrence records 72,281
Species level 49,245
Species 642
Taxa 929
Datasets 48
Time range 1944 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 13
No WoRMS match 2,966
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 2,093
No accepted name available 6,369

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 69,156 1,528
eventDate 60 0
maximumDepthInMeters 13,853 0
minimumDepthInMeters 13,378 0
occurrenceStatus 11,728 0
scientificName 7 0
scientificNameID 1,297 1,720

Spatial issues

Records on land 946
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 509

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Dinophyceae Fritsch, 1927
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
5,877
Phocoena phocoena relicta Abel, 1905
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
2,170
Maxillopoda Dahl, 1956
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Maxillopoda
1,430
Gephyrocapsa huxleyi (Lohmann) P.Reinhardt, 1972
Phylum Haptophyta > Class Coccolithophyceae
1,201
Prorocentrum cordatum (Ostenfeld) J.D.Dodge, 1976
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
1,124
Prorocentrum micans Ehrenberg, 1834
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
1,023
Thalassionema nitzschioides (Grunow) Mereschkowsky, 1902
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
1,001
Tripos furca (Ehrenberg) F.Gómez, 2013
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
961
Pseudo-nitzschia delicatissima (Cleve) Heiden, 1928
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
917
Pseudosolenia calcar-avis (Schultze) B.G.Sundström, 1986
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
843

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Hyale pontica Rathke, 1836
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2022
Megaluropus agilis Hoek, 1889
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
3 2022
Athanas nitescens (Leach, 1814)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
2 2022
Iphinoe serrata Norman, 1867
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2022
Neanthes fucata (Savigny, 1822)
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1 2022
Donax semistriatus Poli, 1795
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
4 2022
Gastrana fragilis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
3 2022
Gouldia minima (Montagu, 1803)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia
4 2022
Nototropis guttatus (A. Costa in Hope, 1851)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
5 2022
Crassicorophium bonellii (H. Milne Edwards, 1830)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
2 2022

Data providers

Name Records
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oceanology 24,922
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Institute of Oceanology; Marine Biology and Ecology 24,922
Institute of Oceanology-BAS 24,922
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO 10,454
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 10,443
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 5,948
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, O. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas 3,963
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences –The Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research 2,512
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research 2,512
Federation of Nature Conservation NGO's Green Balkans 1,747