Black Sea

Statistics

Occurrence records 573,497
Species level 457,263
Species 2,069
Taxa 3,010
Datasets 238
Time range 1860 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 3,574
No WoRMS match 13,430
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 18,557
No accepted name available 51,926

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 525,489 572
eventDate 1,264 0
maximumDepthInMeters 83,098 0
minimumDepthInMeters 19,323 0
occurrenceStatus 15,065 0
scientificName 34 0
scientificNameID 1,700 11,876

Spatial issues

Records on land 927
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 1,296

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Pseudocalanus elongatus (Brady, 1865)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
29,435
Acartia (Acartiura) clausii Giesbrecht, 1892
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
27,033
Parasagitta setosa (J. Müller, 1847)
Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea
16,187
Acartia clausii Giesbrecht, 1892
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
15,748
Oithona similis Claus, 1866
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
15,607
Paracalanus parvus (Claus, 1863)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
15,273
Calanus euxinus Hulsemann, 1991
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
14,486
Oithona nana Giesbrecht, 1893
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
14,313
Gephyrocapsa huxleyi (Lohmann) P.Reinhardt, 1972
Phylum Haptophyta > Class Coccolithophyceae
9,486
Prorocentrum cordatum (Ostenfeld) J.D.Dodge, 1976
Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae
9,477

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Hyale pontica Rathke, 1836
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2022
Megaluropus agilis Hoek, 1889
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
3 2022
Iphinoe serrata Norman, 1867
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2022
Hydroides dianthus (Verrill, 1873)
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1 2022
Mangelia pontica Milaschewitsch, 1908
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
1 2022
Nototropis guttatus (A. Costa in Hope, 1851)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
5 2022
Erinaceusyllis defneae Çinar & Erdoğan-Dereli̇, 2023
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1 2022
Polycirrus karadenizicus Çinar & Erdoğan-Dereli̇, 2023
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1 2022
Polycirrus rhombolabiatus Çinar & Erdoğan-Dereli̇, 2023
Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta
1 2022
Larus canus Linnaeus, 1758
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
162 2019

Data providers

Name Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 295,563
National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa" 203,278
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, O. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas 139,895
Odessa National I.I. Mechnikov University 60,379
Ministère de la Défense nationale; Marine 56,584
Ukrainian scientific center of Ecology of Sea 49,707
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oceanology 24,922
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Institute of Oceanology; Marine Biology and Ecology 24,922
Institute of Oceanology-BAS 24,922
Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea 18,997