Ligurian Sea

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Statistics

Occurrence records 12,152
Species level 9,909
Species 458
Taxa 625
Datasets 77
Time range 1868 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 19
No WoRMS match 34
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 1
No accepted name available 40

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 2,773 3,298
eventDate 395 0
maximumDepthInMeters 4,321 0
minimumDepthInMeters 4,321 0
occurrenceStatus 246 0
scientificName 3 0
scientificNameID 114 0

Spatial issues

Records on land 0
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 4,887

Top datasets

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia 		1,693
Parazoanthus axinellae (Schmidt, 1862)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia 		583
Paramuricea clavata (Risso, 1827)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia 		524
Diplodus Rafinesque, 1810
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		444
Cladocora caespitosa (Linnaeus, 1767) EN
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia 		429
Chromis chromis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei 		411
Eunicella cavolini (Koch, 1887)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia 		401
Caulerpa cylindracea Sonder, 1845
Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Ulvophyceae 		364
Corallium rubrum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia 		355
Leptopsammia pruvoti Lacaze-Duthiers, 1897
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia 		353

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Astroides calycularis (Pallas, 1766)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia 		1 2020
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia 		2 2020
Larus michahellis J.F. Naumann, 1840
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves 		95 2019
Calocalanus pavo (Dana, 1849-1852)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda 		1 2017
Solmundella bitentaculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa 		1 2017
Rhopalonema velatum Gegenbaur, 1857
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa 		3 2017
Aplysina aerophoba (Nardo, 1833)
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae 		2 2017
Abylopsis tetragona (Otto, 1823)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa 		3 2017
Styliola subula (Quoy & Gaimard, 1827)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda 		2 2017
Rapana venosa (Valenciennes, 1846)
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda 		1 2016

Data providers

Name Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 7,718
Reef Check Italia onlus 6,318
Duke University 3,338
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) 2,377
Tethys Research Institute 2,120
Observatoire Pelagis UMS 3462, University La Rochelle - CNRS 942
Observatoire PELAGIS, UMS 3462, University La Rochelle-CNRS 942
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Institute of Marine Sciences 628
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, O. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas 461
Universitat de Barcelona 411