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Datasets contributed through ACCOBAMS & WDCS InitiativeAn initiative organized by 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) has facilitated the contribution of the datasets listed below to OBIS-SEAMAP. Some datasets contain observations outside the ACCOBAMS areas, which are not shown in the map below. To see such observations, visit the Dataset Page for the relevant datasets. Facilitator: Tilen Genov, Morigenos |
Summary
| #datasets | 37 | |
| Time span | 1526-01-01 - 2022-12-08 | |
| #species | #records | |
| Marine mammals | 33 | 30,046 |
| Sea turtles | 4 | 1,883 |
| Others | 4 | 65 |
| Total | 41 | 31,994 |
A gridded summary of the datasets at 0.1 degree. A click on the summary map takes you to the interactive map with all the datasets listed below pre-loaded.
Dataset List
The list is sorted by the date registered (newest first).
A click on an individual dataset title or map image takes you to an interactive map (open a new tab).
A click on an individual dataset title or map image takes you to an interactive map (open a new tab).
The number of records (#records) represents two values. The left is the number of records within the region and the right counts all the records of the dataset.
KYMA boat-based surveys in Thyrrhenian Sea and Ionian Sea
| #records | 263 / 263 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 2020-07-07 - 2022-10-12 |
| Added | 2020-11-13 |
| Species (Top 3) | Stenella coeruleoalba (114) Caretta caretta (65) Tursiops truncatus (25) |
Provider
- KYMA sea conservation & research
Contact(s)
- Silvia Frey, KYMA sea conservation & research
OceanCare cetacean sightings in Sicily, Italy 2016-2019
| #records | 184 / 184 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 2016-06-27 - 2019-09-26 |
| Added | 2019-11-11 |
| Species (Top 3) | Stenella coeruleoalba (148) Tursiops truncatus (14) Physeter macrocephalus (12) |
Provider
- OceanCare
Contact(s)
- Silvia Frey, KYMA sea conservation & research
Cetacean strandings on the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea 2017
| #records | 169 / 169 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 2017-01-15 - 2017-12-21 |
| Added | 2019-10-08 |
| Species (Top 3) | Phocoena phocoena relicta (135) Delphinus delphis ponticus (21) Tursiops truncatus ponticus (13) |
Provider
- Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea
Contact(s)
- Oleksandr Neprokin, Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea
- Karina Vishnyakova, Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea
Identification and initial assessment of cetacean groupings in coastal waters of the north-western Black Sea, Ukrainian sector funded by ACCOBAMS 2016-2017
| #records | 454 / 454 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 2016-06-23 - 2017-08-09 |
| Added | 2019-10-08 |
| Species (Top 3) | Tursiops truncatus ponticus (198) Delphinus delphis ponticus (163) Phocoena phocoena relicta (93) |
Provider
- Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea
Contact(s)
- Oleksandr Neprokin, Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea
- Karina Vishnyakova, Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea
GREC Transit Gibraltar to Azores (2013) and return (2015)
| #records | 17 / 34 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 2013-07-04 - 2015-08-01 |
| Added | 2016-12-12 |
| Species (Top 3) | Stenella coeruleoalba (13) Delphinus delphis (10) Tursiops truncatus (3) |
Provider
- Groupe de Recherche sur les Cétacés
Contact(s)
- Alexandre Gannier, Groupe de Recherche sur les Cétacés
Cetacean coordinated transborder monitoring using ferries as platforms of observation off Tunisia 2013-2014 - Ketos
| #records | 82 / 82 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 2013-12-18 - 2014-12-18 |
| Added | 2015-05-11 |
| Species (Top 3) | Stenella coeruleoalba (52) Tursiops truncatus (18) Delphinus delphis (9) |
Provider
- Italo-Tunisian Cetacean Research Project
Contact(s)
- Mario Letteri Tingali, Associazione KETOS
Cetacean coordinated transborder monitoring using ferries as platforms of observation off Tunisia 2013-2014 - Atutax
| #records | 63 / 63 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 2013-09-28 - 2015-05-17 |
| Added | 2015-04-16 |
| Species (Top 3) | Stenella coeruleoalba (21) Tursiops truncatus (21) Balaenoptera physalus (9) |
Provider
- Italo-Tunisian Cetacean Research Project
Contact(s)
- Mehdi Aissi, Atutax
Visual sightings from Song of the Whale 1993-2013
| #records | 1211 / 7031 |
| Tracks | Yes |
| Survey dates | 1993-06-12 - 2013-09-26 |
| Added | 2014-05-01 |
| Species (Top 3) | Phocoena phocoena (885) Delphinidae (860) Physeter macrocephalus (744) |
Provider
- International Fund for Animal Welfare, Song of the Whale Team
Contact(s)
- Oliver Boisseau, Song of the Whale team, MCR International
Acoustic detections of sperm whales from research cruises in the Med sea, 1994-2001
| #records | 27 / 27 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 1994-06-24 - 2001-07-11 |
| Added | 2014-03-03 |
| Species (Top 3) | Physeter macrocephalus (27) |
Provider
- Claudio Fossati, University of Pavia
Contact(s)
- Claudio Fossati, CIBRA Center for Bioacoustics, University of Pavia
- Giulia Romè, CIBRA Center for Bioacoustics, University of Pavia
- Gianni Pavan, CIBRA Center for Bioacoustics, University of Pavia
Acoustic detections from research cruises in the Med sea, 1994-2001
| #records | 103 / 103 |
| Tracks | Yes |
| Survey dates | 1994-06-18 - 2001-07-11 |
| Added | 2014-02-28 |
| Species (Top 3) | Stenella coeruleoalba (99) Grampus griseus (3) Tursiops truncatus (1) |
Provider
- Claudio Fossati, University of Pavia
Contact(s)
- Claudio Fossati, CIBRA Center for Bioacoustics, University of Pavia
- Gianni Pavan, CIBRA Center for Bioacoustics, University of Pavia
- Giulia Romè, CIBRA Center for Bioacoustics, University of Pavia
Visual contacts from research cruises in the Med sea, 1994-2001
| #records | 90 / 90 |
| Tracks | Yes |
| Survey dates | 1994-06-17 - 2001-07-11 |
| Added | 2014-01-14 |
| Species (Top 3) | Stenella coeruleoalba (54) Balaenoptera physalus (16) Physeter macrocephalus (9) |
Provider
- Claudio Fossati, University of Pavia
Contact(s)
- Claudio Fossati, CIBRA Center for Bioacoustics, University of Pavia
- Gianni Pavan, CIBRA Center for Bioacoustics, University of Pavia
- Giulia Romè, CIBRA Center for Bioacoustics, University of Pavia
Cetacean sightings along the catalan coast
| #records | 9 / 9 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 2013-03-23 - 2013-09-28 |
| Added | 2013-11-27 |
| Species (Top 3) | Stenella coeruleoalba (5) Tursiops truncatus (3) Balaenoptera physalus (1) |
Provider
- Associació Cetàcea
Contact(s)
- Oriol Giralt, Associació Cetàcea
Cetacean sightings in the north western Mediterranean Sea by EcoOcéan Institute and partners 1994-2011
| #records | 1931 / 1931 |
| Tracks | Yes |
| Survey dates | 1994-06-19 - 2011-08-31 |
| Added | 2013-07-08 |
| Species (Top 3) | Stenella coeruleoalba (1,037) Balaenoptera physalus (421) Delphinidae (274) |
Provider
- EcoOcéan Institut
Contact(s)
- Léa David, EcoOcéan Institut
- Nathalie Di-Méglio, EcoOcéan Institut
Bycatch along Romanian Black Sea coasts 2010-2011
| #records | 12 / 12 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 2010-04-10 - 2011-07-08 |
| Added | 2013-02-28 |
| Species (Top 3) | Phocoena phocoena relicta (11) Tursiops truncatus ponticus (1) |
Provider
- Mare Nostrum
Contact(s)
- Marian Paiu, Mare Nostrum NGO
Strandings along Romanian Black Sea coasts since 2010
| #records | 1153 / 1157 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 2010-04-18 - 2022-11-27 |
| Added | 2013-02-27 |
| Species (Top 3) | Phocoena phocoena relicta (888) Tursiops truncatus ponticus (181) Delphinus delphis ponticus (65) |
Provider
- Mare Nostrum
Contact(s)
- Marian Paiu, Mare Nostrum NGO
University of Valencia cetacean surveys in the Spanish Mediterranean 2000-2003
| #records | 1553 / 1553 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 2000-02-22 - 2003-03-20 |
| Added | 2012-09-18 |
| Species (Top 3) | Caretta caretta (1,215) Stenella coeruleoalba (237) Tursiops truncatus (36) |
Provider
- Patricia Gozalbes Aparicio, Marine Zoology Unit, University of Valencia
Contact(s)
- Patricia Gozalbes, Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva. Unidad de Zoología Marina
Short-beaked common dolphin in the northern Adriatic Sea 2010-2011
| #records | 2 / 2 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 2010-06-15 - 2011-08-06 |
| Added | 2012-08-06 |
| Species (Top 3) | Delphinus delphis (2) |
Provider
- Tilen Genov, Morigenos
Contact(s)
- Tilen Genov, Morigenos - marine mammal research & conservation society
Cetaceans sightings by boat since 2010
| #records | 740 / 740 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 2010-03-27 - 2022-12-08 |
| Added | 2012-04-18 |
| Species (Top 3) | Phocoena phocoena relicta (367) Tursiops truncatus ponticus (245) Delphinus delphis ponticus (128) |
Provider
- Mare Nostrum
Contact(s)
- Marian Paiu, Mare Nostrum NGO
Historical strandings of cetaceans on the Portuguese coast
| #records | 38 / 38 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 1525-12-31 - 1977-09-10 |
| Added | 2012-04-18 |
| Species (Top 3) | Physeter macrocephalus (7) Balaenoptera physalus (6) Phocoena phocoena (5) |
Provider
- Escola de Mar
Contact(s)
- Andreia Sousa, Escola de Mar
Cetaceans sightings from shore since 2010
| #records | 118 / 118 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 2010-10-20 - 2022-08-04 |
| Added | 2012-04-18 |
| Species (Top 3) | Tursiops truncatus ponticus (65) Phocoena phocoena relicta (44) Delphinus delphis ponticus (8) |
Provider
- Mare Nostrum
Contact(s)
- Marian Paiu, Mare Nostrum NGO
CIRCE Marine mammals off Spain 2001-2012
| #records | 3721 / 3721 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 1999-04-22 - 2012-02-06 |
| Added | 2012-04-12 |
| Species (Top 3) | Globicephala melas (841) Tursiops truncatus (736) Stenella coeruleoalba (669) |
Provider
- CIRCE
Contact(s)
- Renaud de Stephanis, CIRCE
Cetacean sightings off Turkey 2006-2011
| #records | 23 / 23 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 2006-06-12 - 2011-01-02 |
| Added | 2012-04-09 |
| Species (Top 3) | Tursiops truncatus (17) Delphinus delphis (3) Physeter macrocephalus (1) |
Provider
- SAD-DEMAG (Underwater Research Society - Marine Mammals Research Group)
Contact(s)
- Fethi Bengil, SAD-DEMAG
Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute (BDRI) cetacean sightings 2011
| #records | 183 / 183 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 2011-02-25 - 2011-10-05 |
| Added | 2012-03-06 |
| Species (Top 3) | Tursiops truncatus (174) Balaenoptera physalus (4) Stenella coeruleoalba (4) |
Provider
- Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute
Contact(s)
- Bruno Diaz Lopez, The Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute (BDRI)
Green Balkans NGO's cetacean strandings on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast
| #records | 1520 / 1525 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 2010-04-19 - 2022-12-06 |
| Added | 2012-02-24 |
| Species (Top 3) | Phocoena phocoena relicta (1,030) Tursiops truncatus ponticus (198) Delphinidae (182) |
Provider
- Green Balkans NGO
Contact(s)
- Popov Dimitar, Green Balkans NGO
IMMRAC marine mammal sightings from the Mediterranean's Levantine Basin
| #records | 105 / 105 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 1993-07-26 - 2014-03-02 |
| Added | 2012-02-17 |
| Species (Top 3) | Delphinus delphis (45) Stenella coeruleoalba (15) Grampus griseus (11) |
Provider
- Israel Marine Mammal Research and Assistance Center (IMMRAC)
Contact(s)
- Dani Kerem, IMMRAC (Israel Marine Mammal Research and Assistance Center)
GREC Tursiops sightings in the Mediterranean 1988-2010
| #records | 94 / 94 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 1988-08-02 - 2010-08-14 |
| Added | 2012-01-18 |
| Species (Top 3) | Tursiops truncatus (94) |
Provider
- Groupe de Recherche sur les Cétacés
Contact(s)
- Alexandre Gannier, Groupe de Recherche sur les Cétacés
SMRU sperm whale distribution around the Balearic Islands 2003-2008
| #records | 1125 / 1125 |
| Tracks | Yes |
| Survey dates | 2003-08-04 - 2008-07-26 |
| Added | 2011-12-09 |
| Species (Top 3) | Physeter macrocephalus (1,125) |
Provider
- Enrico Pirotta, Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU)
Contact(s)
- Enrico Pirotta, Sea Mammal Research Unit, Scottish Oceans Institute, University of St. Andrews
- Luke Rendell, Sea Mammal Research Unit, Scottish Oceans Institute, University of St. Andrews
Tethys Research Institute shipboard survey cetacean sightings 1986-2012
| #records | 8046 / 8469 |
| Tracks | Yes |
| Survey dates | 1986-07-11 - 2012-11-22 |
| Added | 2011-10-06 |
| Species (Top 3) | Stenella coeruleoalba (3,746) Tursiops truncatus (2,070) Balaenoptera physalus (1,041) |
Provider
- Tethys Research Institute
Contact(s)
- Caterina Lanfredi, Tethys Research Institute
- Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Tethys Research Institute
Tethys Research Institute aerial survey cetacean sightings 2009-2011
| #records | 1142 / 1142 |
| Tracks | Yes |
| Survey dates | 2009-01-12 - 2011-01-19 |
| Added | 2011-10-06 |
| Species (Top 3) | Stenella coeruleoalba (956) Balaenoptera physalus (83) Tursiops truncatus (34) |
Provider
- Tethys Research Institute
Contact(s)
- Caterina Lanfredi, Tethys Research Institute
- Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Tethys Research Institute
CE.TU.S. research cetacean sightings in the North Tuscany and Tuscan Archipelago waters, 1997-2011
| #records | 394 / 394 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 1997-08-19 - 2010-10-29 |
| Added | 2011-10-05 |
| Species (Top 3) | Tursiops truncatus (327) Stenella coeruleoalba (39) Balaenoptera physalus (13) |
Provider
- Cetacean Research Centre (CE.TU.S.)
Contact(s)
- Silvio Nuti, CE.TU.S. Cetacean Research Centre
- Davide Bedocchi, CE.TU.S. Cetacean Research Centre
Acquario di Genova, Delfini Metropolitani Project, cetacean sightings 2001-2009
| #records | 160 / 160 |
| Tracks | Yes |
| Survey dates | 2001-04-27 - 2009-10-27 |
| Added | 2011-05-31 |
| Species (Top 3) | Tursiops truncatus (113) Stenella coeruleoalba (34) Delphinus delphis (5) |
Provider
- Acquario di Genova
Contact(s)
- Michela Bellingeri, Acquario di Genova
Cetacean occurrence off the west central Portugal coast from boat-based surveys 2007-2008
| #records | 56 / 56 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 2007-01-08 - 2008-12-23 |
| Added | 2011-03-07 |
| Species (Top 3) | Delphinus delphis (41) Tursiops truncatus (9) Stenella coeruleoalba (4) |
Provider
- Escola de Mar
Contact(s)
- Cristina Brito, Escola de Mar
OceanCare cetacean sightings 2001-2014
| #records | 492 / 492 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 2001-06-25 - 2014-07-18 |
| Added | 2010-11-03 |
| Species (Top 3) | Stenella coeruleoalba (373) Physeter macrocephalus (53) Balaenoptera physalus (23) |
Provider
- OceanCare
Contact(s)
- Silvia Frey, KYMA sea conservation & research
Bottlenose dolphins in Slovenian and adjacent waters (north Adriatic Sea) in 2002-2008
| #records | 120 / 120 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 2002-08-01 - 2008-09-01 |
| Added | 2010-02-09 |
| Species (Top 3) | Tursiops truncatus (120) |
Provider
- Tilen Genov, Morigenos
Contact(s)
- Tilen Genov, Morigenos - marine mammal research & conservation society
New record of the humpback whale in the Adriatic Sea in 2009
| #records | 1 / 1 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 2009-02-01 - 2009-02-01 |
| Added | 2010-02-09 |
| Species (Top 3) | Megaptera novaeangliae (1) |
Provider
- Tilen Genov, Morigenos
Contact(s)
- Tilen Genov, Morigenos - marine mammal research & conservation society
Loggerhead turtles in Slovenian and adjacent waters (north Adriatic Sea) in 2002-2008
| #records | 65 / 65 |
| Tracks | No |
| Survey dates | 2002-08-01 - 2008-08-01 |
| Added | 2010-02-09 |
| Species (Top 3) | Caretta caretta (65) |
Provider
- Tilen Genov, Morigenos
Contact(s)
- Tilen Genov, Morigenos - marine mammal research & conservation society
Alnitak-Alnilam Cetaceans and sea turtles surveys off Southern Spain
| #records | 4874 / 4879 |
| Tracks | Yes |
| Survey dates | 1990-07-15 - 2011-08-29 |
| Added | 2007-11-19 |
| Species (Top 3) | Stenella coeruleoalba (1,526) Delphinus delphis (1,261) Globicephala melas (569) |
Provider
- Alnilam
Contact(s)
- Ana Cañadas, Alnilam
