Dataset

Phytoplankton of Lebanon

EurOBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

During the last 40 years of survey in the Lebanese seawaters and the Levantine Basin, we identified and described about 400 species, belonging to 85 genera, including 230 dinoflagellates and 156 diatoms, 10 Silicoflagellates and 4 Ebriidae, many of them are introduced or migrated from Red Sea and Indian Ocean into the Mediterranean, through the Suez Canal pathway.

Citation
Sami Lakkis (2011). Phytoplancton Marin du Liban ( Méditerranée Orientale): Biologie, Biodiversité, Biogeographie. Aracne Editrice, Rome, Italy, 296 p.
Published
September 17, 2025 at 09:33
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Contacts

Sami Lakkis
Lebanese University; Faculty of sciences

Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research

8,573
total submitted occurrences
8,294
accepted occurrences
355
taxa
335
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 8,573
100.0%
scientificNameID 154
1.8%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 1,047
12.2%
MARINE_UNSURE 258
3.0%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 165
1.9%
NO_MATCH 154
1.8%
NOT_MARINE 125
1.5%

Measurement types

DNA derived data