Cyprus - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Cyprus

Statistics

Occurrence records	6,323
Species level	5,468
Species	661
Taxa	847
Datasets	64
Time range	1933 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	56
No WoRMS match	736
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	2
No accepted name available	52

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	6,804	2
eventDate	363	0
maximumDepthInMeters	6,039	0
minimumDepthInMeters	597	0
occurrenceStatus	121	0
scientificNameID	694	182

Spatial issues

Records on land	251
More than 20 km from shore	119
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	17

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
PANGAEA - Data from the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Published 2025-03-20	2,843
PANGAEA - Data from Climatic variability of the Mediterranean Paleo-circulation (CLIVAMP) Published 2025-03-20	1,486
Diveboard - Scuba diving citizen science observations Published 2025-03-20	268
PANGAEA - Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Published 2025-03-20	232
PANGAEA - Data from various sources Published 2025-03-20	220
Occurrence of Eukaryotes in the size fraction >680 micrometres, collected worldwide during the Tara Oceans expedition (2009-2013) using a Régent net and analysed on a ZooScan imaging platform Published 2025-03-20	137
Senckenberg's collection management system Published 2025-03-20	124
Phytoplankton in longitudinal east-west transect of the Mediterranean Sea,1999. Published 2020-04-14	120
Occurrence of Eukaryotes in the size fraction >300 micrometres, collected worldwide during the Tara Oceans expedition (2009-2013) using a Bongo net and analysed on a ZooScan imaging platform Published 2025-03-20	101
Comparative study of the organismic assemblages associated with the demosponge Sarcotragus foetidus Schmidt, 1862 in the coasts of Cyprus and Greece Published 2020-03-26	92

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

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Scientific name	Records
Orbulina universa d'Orbigny, 1839 Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	204
Globigerinoides ruber (d'Orbigny, 1839) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	191
Globigerinella siphonifera (d'Orbigny, 1839) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	154
Trilobatus sacculifer (Brady, 1877) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	148
Globigerina bulloides d'Orbigny, 1826 Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	146
Biota	121
Globigerinella calida (Parker, 1962) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	107
Neogloboquadrina Bandy, Frerichs & Vincent, 1967 Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	106
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) VU Phylum Chordata	104
Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (Ehrenberg, 1861) Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	103

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Pontocrates marmario Garcia Gómez & Myers in Garcia Gómez, Myers, Avramidi, Grammatiki, Lymperaki, Resaikos, Papatheodoulou, Louca, Xevgenos & Küpper, 2024 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2023
Parupeneus forsskali (Fourmanoir & Guézé, 1976) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	11	2021
Torquigener flavimaculosus Hardy & Randall, 1983 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2021
Pinna nobilis Linnaeus, 1758 CR Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia	1	2017
Caulerpa cylindracea Sonder, 1845 Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Ulvophyceae	1	2017
Ircinia oros (Schmidt, 1864) Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	1	2016
Dendrophyllia ramea (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hexacorallia	5	2015
Siganus luridus (Rüppell, 1829) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	10	2014
Siganus rivulatus Forsskål & Niebuhr, 1775 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	18	2014
Pempheris rhomboidea Kossmann & Räuber, 1877 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	6	2014

Data providers

Name	Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	5,668
Sorbonne Université	337
Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche-sur-Mer	337
Tara Oceans Consortium	323
Diveboard	268
Datafable	268
European Bioinformatics Institute	222
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture	212
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	163
Station Biologique de Roscoff	142