Sea of Azov - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Sea of Azov

Statistics

Occurrence records	4,223
Species level	3,718
Species	137
Taxa	204
Datasets	19
Time range	1867 - 2017

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	5
No WoRMS match	143
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	29
No accepted name available	133

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	4,360	0
eventDate	28	0
maximumDepthInMeters	1,209	0
minimumDepthInMeters	332	0
occurrenceStatus	6	0
scientificNameID	19	125

Spatial issues

Records on land	5
More than 20 km from shore	1
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	10

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Benthos collected in the Azov Sea in 1935 on board the R/V "N. Danilevskiy" Published 2025-03-20	1,804
Benthos collected in the Azov Sea during several expeditions in 1934-1935 Published 2025-03-20	1,180
Phytoplankton of the Ukrainian Black Sea shelf (1985-2005) Published 2025-03-20	514
Cetacean sightings in the Black Sea, Sea of Azov and Kerch Strait Published 2025-03-20	254
Cetacean strandings in the northern Black Sea and the Sea of Azov Published 2025-03-20	225
Zooplankton in the Ukrainia Black Sea shelf (1989-2005) Published 2025-03-20	181
World Database of Nematodes Published 2025-03-20	16
Zooplankton from the north-eastern Black Sea for 1994-2005 Published 2025-03-20	13
Data on cetacean strandings (1999 - 2014) on the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov and adjoining areas Published 2017-10-17	9
Seagrasses of the Crimean coastal zone (Black Sea, 1960-2009) Published 2025-03-20	5

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

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Scientific name	Records
Alitta succinea (Leuckart, 1847) Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	403
Phocoena phocoena relicta Abel, 1905 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	337
Cerastoderma edule (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia	321
Abra segmentum (Récluz, 1843) Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia	282
Amphibalanus improvisus (Darwin, 1854) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Thecostraca	257
Ecrobia ventrosa (Montagu, 1803) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	230
Nephtys hombergii Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	177
Mytilaster Monterosato, 1883 Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia	145
Brachynotus sexdentatus (Risso, 1827) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	127
Harmothoe imbricata (Linnaeus, 1767) Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	122

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU Phylum Chordata	1	2012
Polykrikos kofoidii Chatton, 1914 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	1	2005
Thalassiosira nordenskioeldii Cleve, 1873 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	1	2005
Leptocylindrus minimus Gran, 1915 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	3	2005
Skeletonema subsalsum (Cleve-Euler) Bethge, 1928 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	1	2005
Nitzschia longissima (Brébisson) Ralfs, 1861 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	3	2005
Chaetoceros simplex Ostenfeld, 1902 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	3	2005
Cocconeis scutellum Ehrenberg, 1838 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	4	2005
Coscinodiscopsis jonesiana (Greville) E.A.Sar & I.Sunesen, 2008 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	3	2005
Octactis speculum (Ehrenberg) F.H.Chang, J.M.Grieve & J.E.Sutherland, 2017 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Dictyochophyceae	2	2005

Data providers

Name	Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	3,976
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, O. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas	3,214
Odessa National I.I. Mechnikov University	514
Brema Laboratory	479
Ukrainian scientific center of Ecology of Sea	181
POD Federaal Wetenschapsbeleid	16
Universiteit Gent, Marine Biology research group	16
Universiteit Gent	16
Biology Centre	16
Instituto de Estudios Eclesiales Padre Félix Varela	16