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

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

URL

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

Archive

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=birkun_cetacea_strandings

Contacts

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

total submitted occurrences

1,247

accepted occurrences

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