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Georgia

Statistics

Occurrence records	17,429
Species level	13,989
Species	368
Taxa	478
Datasets	36
Time range	1874 - 2019

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	36
No WoRMS match	134
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	182
No accepted name available	823

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	14,663	0
eventDate	41	0
maximumDepthInMeters	3,317	0
minimumDepthInMeters	335	0
occurrenceStatus	7	0
scientificNameID	8	131

Spatial issues

Records on land	45
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	37

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Zooplankton in the Ukrainia Black Sea shelf (1989-2005) Published 2025-03-20	5,047
Phytoplankton of the Ukrainian Black Sea shelf (1985-2005) Published 2025-03-20	1,150
Phytoplankton of the northern part of the Black Sea 1992-1993 Published 2025-03-20	1,073
Historical zooplankton records from the Black Sea Published 2025-03-20	924
YugNIRO-1 - Macrozoobenthos data and accompanied environmental data from the Black Sea Published 2025-03-20	830
Zooplankton data collected during cruises on the R/V Knipovich in April 1950 Published 2025-03-20	773
Mesozooplankton, Joint Black Sea Survey in Georgia(GE) and Ukraine (UA) waters 2019, EMBLAS Plus Project Published 2023-11-06	634
Zooplankton collected in the Black Sea along the Yalta-Batumi transect in February 1951 Published 2025-03-20	587
Phytoplankton, Joint Black Sea Survey in Georgia(GE) and Ukraine (UA) waters 2019, EMBLAS Plus Project Published 2023-11-06	535
Phytoplankton data collected during cruises on the R/V Knipovich in 1948 and 1950 Published 2025-03-20	526

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa

Scientific name	Records
Pseudocalanus elongatus (Brady, 1865) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1,541
Calanus helgolandicus ponticus Jaschnov, 1955 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1,401
Oithona similis Claus, 1866 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	771
Acartia clausii Giesbrecht, 1892 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	733
Parasagitta setosa (J. Müller, 1847) Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea	576
Paracalanus parvus (Claus, 1863) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	460
Noctiluca scintillans (Macartney) Kofoid & Swezy, 1921 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	434
Acartia (Acartiura) clausii Giesbrecht, 1892 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	428
Copepoda Milne Edwards, 1840 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	420
Calanus euxinus Hulsemann, 1991 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	374

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Cyclopina gracilis Claus, 1863 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2019
Dinophysis tripos Gourret, 1883 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	3	2019
Gymnodinium neapolitanum J.Schiller, 1928 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	5	2019
Gymnodinium rhomboides Schütt, 1895 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	2	2019
Hemidinium nasutum F.Stein, 1878 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	6	2019
Spatulodinium pseudonoctiluca (Pouchet) J.Cachon & M.Cachon, 1968 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	1	2019
Gonyaulax scrippsae Kofoid, 1911 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	2	2019
Acartia (Acanthacartia) tonsa Dana, 1849-1852 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	7	2019
Centropages spinosus (Krichagin, 1873) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	5	2019
Glenodinium obliquum Pouchet Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	2	2019

Data providers

Name	Records
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	13,837
Ukrainian scientific center of Ecology of Sea	7,481
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, O. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas	4,457
Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea	3,005
Odessa National I.I. Mechnikov University	1,150
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine , Institute of Marine Biology	841
Institute of Marine Biology (IMB), Academy of Science of Ukraine	841
Southern Scientific Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography; World Ocean Fisheries Resources Department	830
Brema Laboratory	255
Russian Academy of Sciences P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology	147