Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin

Statistics

Occurrence records 152,048
Species level 121,940
Species 5,042
Taxa 6,409
Datasets 219
Time range 1767 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 241
No WoRMS match 3,110
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 3,959
No accepted name available 3,593

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 138,919 2,254
eventDate 13,300 0
maximumDepthInMeters 77,946 75
minimumDepthInMeters 67,140 58
occurrenceStatus 24,956 0
scientificName 90 0
scientificNameID 2,850 1,518

Spatial issues

Records on land 69
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 1,795

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Rhopilema nomadica Galil, Spanier & Ferguson, 1990
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Scyphozoa
7,564
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata
7,323
Siganus rivulatus Forsskål & Niebuhr, 1775
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
7,163
Globigerinoides ruber (d'Orbigny, 1839)
Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea
1,794
Rhizostoma pulmo (Macri, 1778)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Scyphozoa
1,616
Bacteria
1,487
Mnemiopsis leidyi A. Agassiz, 1865
Phylum Ctenophora > Class Tentaculata
1,132
Gammaproteobacteria
Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria
1,048
Boops boops (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
958
Pagellus erythrinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
943

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Actinia equina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia
1 2023
Parablennius gattorugine (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2023
Parablennius ruber (Valenciennes, 1836)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2023
Anemonia sulcata (Pennant, 1777)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia
1 2023
Pontocrates marmario Garcia Gómez & Myers in Garcia Gómez, Myers, Avramidi, Grammatiki, Lymperaki, Resaikos, Papatheodoulou, Louca, Xevgenos & Küpper, 2024
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2023
Zu cristatus (Bonelli, 1819)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2022
Lobotes surinamensis (Bloch, 1790)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2022
Notocirrus scoticus McIntosh, 1869
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1 2022
Eunice pennata (Müller, 1776)
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1 2022
Euclymene collaris (Claparède, 1869)
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1 2022