Mediterranean Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records 1,658,645
Species level 1,021,194
Species 10,905
Taxa 14,540
Datasets 519
Time range 1821 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 23,410
No WoRMS match 53,969
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 203,035
No accepted name available 770,411

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 9,602,778 294,953
eventDate 60,677 0
maximumDepthInMeters 670,864 93
minimumDepthInMeters 611,068 118
occurrenceStatus 53,606 0
scientificName 520 0
scientificNameID 16,502 44,875

Spatial issues

Records on land 112,544
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 30,862

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Larus fuscus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
43,661
Pseudo-nitzschia H. Peragallo in H. Peragallo & M. Peragallo, 1900
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
34,553
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU
Phylum Chordata
30,330
Chaetoceros C.G. Ehrenberg, 1844
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
22,046
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
17,317
Scrippsiella Balech ex A.R.Loeblich III, 1965
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
11,442
Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
11,279
Gymnodinium F.Stein, 1878
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
11,158
Cryptophyceae Fritsch, 1927
Phylum Cryptophyta > Class Cryptophyceae
10,807
Tripos furca (Ehrenberg) F.Gómez, 2013
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
10,335

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Asterina phylactica Emson & Crump, 1979
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Asteroidea
1 2023
Parablennius ruber (Valenciennes, 1836)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2023
Symplegma brakenhielmi (Michaelsen, 1904)
Phylum Chordata > Class Ascidiacea
1 2023
Thalassiosira profunda (Hendey) Hasle, 1973
Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae
1 2023
Ophelia amoureuxi Bellan & Costa, 1988
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1 2022
Numenius arquata (Linnaeus, 1758) NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
7 2022
Kyphosus sectatrix (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2022
Zostera marina Linnaeus, 1753
Phylum Tracheophyta > Class Magnoliopsida
1 2022
Paramuricea tingitana Ocaña & Correa, 2022
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia
2 2022
Paramuricea baetica Ocaña & Correa, 2022
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia
2 2022

Data providers

Name Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 1,102,744
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Institute of Marine Sciences 370,678
Institut de Recerca i Tecnològica Agroalimentaria 339,850
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer, IFREMER, Centre de Brest 287,122
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture 147,191
National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics 110,491
Cépralmar 105,561
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer, IFREMER, Centre de Nantes 86,233
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, O. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas 85,426
Instituto Español de Oceanografía 80,261