Jellyfish Sightings Along the Italian Coastline from 2009 to 2017

Ferdinando Boero; Stefano Piraino; Serena Zampardi

doi:10.14284/345

Jellyfish Sightings Along the Italian Coastline from 2009 to 2017

Citation

Boero Ferdinando, Piraino Stefano, Zampardi Serena; (2019) - Jellyfish sightings along the Italian coastline from 2009 to 2017 https://dx.doi.org/10.14284/345 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-13.

Description

The lack of gelatinous blooms data reveals scant attention to such phenomena due to their irregular occurrence (Boero et al. 2008), to modern publication trends that give no importance to observations (Boero 2013b), to current monitoring programs that usually do not cover jellyfish (Riisgård et al. 2012) and to the lack of remote sensing tools to detect jellyfish. From 2009 the Italian project Occhio alla Medusa started involving citizens to record sightings of gelatinous organisms. In 2010 till 2015, the Italian popular science magazine FOCUS supported the campaign dedicating a webpage and releasing a smartphone app to upload records.

Additional info

From 2013 we started to collect data also from the web. In 2016 we opened a facebook page “Meteo Meduse” to replace the app. Species of gelatinous macrozooplancton including Cnidaria, Ctenophora, and Thaliacea, have been sighted by citizens recording date of observation, species name or genus, location, abundance as number of individuals per square meter, coordinates and a picture. We validate about 6000 records of bloom events from 2009-2017 and the collection is still continuing by email and the fb page.

Taxonomic Coverages

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Cnidaria
rank: phylum

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Ctenophora
rank: phylum

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:22626

Thaliacea
rank: class

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Thaliacea
rank: class

Geographic Coverages

EurOBIS calculated BBOX > station Bounding Box

MED, Adriatic Sea

MED, Ionian Sea

MED, Ligurian Sea

MED, Tyrrhenian Sea

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Ferdinando Boero
originator
National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6317-2710

Stefano Piraino
originator
National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8752-9390

Serena Zampardi
originator
National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4636-4083

Ferdinando Boero
metadata author
National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6317-2710

Serena Zampardi
metadata author
National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4636-4083

Serena Zampardi
administrative point of contact
National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4636-4083