Black Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records 587,175
Species level 466,162
Species 2,139
Taxa 3,133
Datasets 239
Time range 1860 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 3,721
No WoRMS match 13,714
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 19,086
No accepted name available 52,929

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 538,747 465
eventDate 1,867 0
maximumDepthInMeters 87,636 0
minimumDepthInMeters 19,808 0
occurrenceStatus 15,071 0
scientificName 34 0
scientificNameID 1,709 12,156

Spatial issues

Records on land 836
More than 20 km from shore 1
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 1,405

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Pseudocalanus elongatus (Brady, 1865)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
29,741
Acartia (Acartiura) clausii Giesbrecht, 1892
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
27,882
Parasagitta setosa (J. Müller, 1847)
Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea
16,512
Acartia clausii Giesbrecht, 1892
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
15,783
Oithona similis Claus, 1866
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
15,724
Paracalanus parvus (Claus, 1863)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
15,511
Oithona nana Giesbrecht, 1893
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
14,699
Calanus euxinus Hulsemann, 1991
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
14,536
Gephyrocapsa huxleyi (Lohmann) P.Reinhardt, 1972
Phylum Haptophyta > Class Coccolithophyceae
9,871
Prorocentrum cordatum (Ostenfeld) J.D.Dodge, 1976
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
9,665

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
Iphinoe serrata Norman, 1867
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2022
Hydroides dianthus (Verrill, 1873)
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1 2022
Mangelia pontica Milaschewitsch, 1908
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
1 2022
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
Larus canus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
162 2019
Puffinus yelkouan (Acerbi, 1827) VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
15 2019

Data providers

Name Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 301,723
National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa" 208,693
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, O. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas 144,183
Odessa National I.I. Mechnikov University 61,366
Ministère de la Défense nationale; Marine 58,313
Ukrainian scientific center of Ecology of Sea 49,945
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
Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea 19,166