Ionian Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records 41,672
Species level 28,032
Species 1,884
Taxa 2,464
Datasets 140
Time range 1852 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 242
No WoRMS match 435
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 169
No accepted name available 1,750

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 43,627 2,896
eventDate 6,628 0
maximumDepthInMeters 10,607 2
minimumDepthInMeters 9,306 4
occurrenceStatus 802 0
scientificName 14 0
scientificNameID 509 90

Spatial issues

Records on land 7,023
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 220

Top datasets

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
1,375
Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
1,070
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata
645
Sagitta Quoy & Gaimard, 1827
Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea
576
Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
554
Clausocalanus Giesbrecht, 1888
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
513
Oithona Baird, 1843
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
477
Euchaeta Philippi, 1843
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
453
Oncaea Philippi, 1843
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
429
Polychaeta Grube, 1850
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
411

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Ampithoe riedli Krapp-Schickel, 1968
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
2 2021
Colomastix pusilla Grube, 1861
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2021
Ericthonius punctatus (Spence Bate, 1857)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2021
Dodecaceria sextentaculata (Delle Chiaje, 1822-1826)
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1 2021
Pseudonereis anomala Gravier, 1899
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1 2021
Amphiglena mediterranea (Leydig, 1851)
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
2 2021
Branchiomma luctuosum (Grube, 1870)
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1 2021
Sphaerosyllis pirifera Claparède, 1868
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1 2021
Apocorophium acutum (Chevreux, 1908)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
2 2021
Dodecaceria capensis Day, 1961
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
2 2021

Data providers

Name Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 27,624
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, O. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas 19,892
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture 7,793
Duke University 2,814
The Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS) and Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) 2,507
National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics 2,242
Tethys Research Institute 2,069
Sorbonne Université 1,086
Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche-sur-Mer 1,086
Tara Oceans Consortium 1,073