ORMEF_v1: Occurrence Records of Mediterranean Exotic Fishes (updated to 01/01/2026)
Citation
Azzurro E, D'Amen M, Biancone N (2026). ORMEF_v1: Occurrence Records of Mediterranean Exotic Fishes (updated to 01/01/2026). Version 1. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/dtd8cr
Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Description
ORMEF is a database about Mediterranean Exotic Fishes including geo-referenced information and temporal dimension of the invasions for scientists, conservationists and policy makers, disseminating specialist’s knowledge and experience. Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output Scope Themes: Biology > Fish Keywords: Marine/Coastal · Air breathing fish · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Environment · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Mediterranean Sea · Actinopterygii Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: -5,4111; MinLat: 30,3316 - MaxLong: 36,2118; MaxLat: 45,7021 [WGS84] Mediterranean Sea [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
1 January 1896 - 1 January 2026 4 April 1962 - 19 July 2025 (EurOBIS harvested data) Taxonomic coverage
Actinopterygii [WoRMS]
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Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
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Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Literature research
Release date: 2026-04-27
Metadatarecord created: 2026-05-05
Information last updated: 2026-06-04
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