Adriatic Sea

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Statistics

Occurrence records 206,039
Species level 130,871
Species 3,795
Taxa 4,874
Datasets 173
Time range 1833 - 2022

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 3,680
No WoRMS match 4,913
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 6,683
No accepted name available 20,906

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 435,742 974
eventDate 6,691 0
maximumDepthInMeters 48,421 0
minimumDepthInMeters 25,646 32
occurrenceStatus 1,550 0
scientificName 16 0
scientificNameID 3,462 3,637

Spatial issues

Records on land 2,203
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 8,248

Top datasets

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		2,400
Protozoa Owen, 1858
2,143
Dinophyceae Fritsch, 1927
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae 		2,015
Chaetoceros C.G. Ehrenberg, 1844
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		1,566
Bacillariophyceae Haeckel, 1878
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		1,564
Cryptophyceae Fritsch, 1927
Phylum Cryptophyta > Class Cryptophyceae 		1,276
Coccolithophyceae Rothmaler, 1951
Phylum Haptophyta > Class Coccolithophyceae 		1,252
Merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		1,199
Diplodus Rafinesque, 1810
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		1,161
Pseudo-nitzschia H. Peragallo in H. Peragallo & M. Peragallo, 1900
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		1,138

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Meristoderes zmaj González-Casarrubios, Sánchez, Cepeda & Pardos, 2024
Phylum Kinorhyncha > Class Cyclorhagida 		1 2022
Aurelia pseudosolida Garić & Batistić, 2022
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Scyphozoa 		2 2020
Leucothea multicornis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
Phylum Ctenophora > Class Tentaculata 		3 2019
Pennaria disticha Goldfuss, 1820
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa 		40 2018
Dipterosiphonia australica Womersley, 2003
Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae 		30 2018
Vertebrata australis (C.Agardh) Kuntze, 1891
Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae 		44 2018
Berkeleya fennica Juhlin-Dannfelt, 1882
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		60 2018
Nitzschia alba J.C.Lewin & R.A.Lewin, 1967
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae 		38 2018
Aphanomyces invadans David & Kirk, 1997
Phylum Oomycota > Class Peronosporea 		74 2018
Chrysoparadoxa australica Wetherbee, 2018
Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Chrysoparadoxophyceae 		40 2018

Data providers

Name Records
National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics 108,258
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 77,673
University of Trieste – Marine Biology Laboratory 55,481
Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research — Branch office Chioggia 34,078
Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries Croatia 22,192
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer, IFREMER, Centre de Brest 20,869
National Institute of Biology; Marine Biological Station Piran 9,908
University of Trieste Marine Biology Laboratory 9,287
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, O. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas 7,910
Reef Check Italia onlus 6,001