Dataset

Aegean macrobenthic fauna

EurOBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

A museum collection of long term qualitative macrobenthic data was collected from the Aegean and Ionian Sea. A very extensive list of peer reviewed articles were derived from this dataset

Citation
Koukouras A., 2000: Northern Aegean dataset. Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki Department of Zoology and Zoological Museum, School of Biology, Greece
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=aegean_macro_fau
Archive
https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=aegean_macro_fau

Contacts

Athanasios Koukouras
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Department of Biology; Laboratory of Zoology

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

7,277
total submitted occurrences
7,258
accepted occurrences
1,062
taxa
1,060
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 7,277
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 7,277
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 7,277
100.0%
scientificNameID 8
0.1%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 7,277
100.0%
ON_LAND 2,139
29.4%
NOT_MARINE 11
0.2%
NO_MATCH 8
0.1%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 1
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data