Name: KYMA boat-based surveys in Thyrrhenian Sea and Ionian Sea
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Original provider: KYMA sea conservation & research Dataset credits: Silvia Frey, KYMA sea conservation & research Abstract: This dataset, belonging as a whole to KYMA sea conservation & research, comprises the monitoring data on great pelagics, mainly cetaceans and sea turtles, carried out in the central Mediterranean Sea, in particular in the southern Thyrrhenian Sea and western Ionian Sea since 2020. The research project is set up as a citizen science project. Spatial and temporal distribution of animals is studied using boat-based surveys.

Citation

Frey, S. 2023. KYMA boat-based surveys in Thyrrhenian Sea and Ionian Sea. Version 1.4.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/cd3b5dc4.

Published

October 09, 2025 at 14:15

First registration

November 18, 2020 at 18:38

License

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

URL

http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_2128

Archive

https://ipt.env.duke.edu/archive.do?r=zd_2128

Contacts

Silvia Frey
KYMA sea conservation & research

OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

ACCOBAMS and WDCS
The Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS) and Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS)

263

total submitted occurrences

263

accepted occurrences

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters		263	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	263		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	263		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		263	100.0%

KYMA boat-based surveys in Thyrrhenian Sea and Ionian Sea

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data