Jellyfish Sightings along the Italian Coastline from 2009 to 2017
GBIF
Dataset type
This dataset that contains primary occurrence data for species.
Description
<p>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. 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.</p>
Type of content
Includes: .Citation
https://doi.org/10.14284/345
Digitised records
Looking up... the number of records that can be accessed through the BioAtlas - Atlas bioraznolikosti Hrvatske. This resource was last checked for updated data on 08 Dec 2025. The most recent data was published on 08 Dec 2025.
Metadata last updated on 2025-12-08 13:02:55.0
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