More than 1220 strandings of Black Sea cetaceans have been recorded on the coasts of Crimea peninsula during the period from 1989-2010.

Citation: Cetacean strandings in the northern Black Sea and the Sea of Azov (CeStraBS). 2011. Dataset assembled by A. Birkun, Jr. and S. Krivokhizhin.EMODnet.

Published: September 17, 2025 at 08:42

URL: http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=birkun_cetacea_strandings

Alexei Birkun
Brema Laboratory

Vladimir Vladymyrov
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas

Sergey Krivokhizhin
Brema Laboratory

1,247

occurrence records

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	1,247		100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	1,247		100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag	Dropped	Records
ON_LAND		505	40.5%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH		53	4.3%

Cetacean strandings in the northern Black Sea and the Sea of Azov

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data