Quantitative data of a molluscan community living in Posidonia oceanica at the south coast of Crete, Greece, 2017

The dataset contains abundance data of benthic molluscs collected in a Posidonia oceanica meadow in Plakias, SW Crete, Greece, eastern Mediterranean Sea.

The sampling occurred in spring and autumn, along a depth transect with stations at 5, 10, 15 and 20 m, and separately for the leaf and rhizome strata. The minimum mesh size is 1 mm.

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IdentificationAbout this resource

Alternate Identifier

10.15468/fsegnf

Alternate Identifier
http://ipt.medobis.eu/resource?r=posidoniaoceanica_crete
Publication Date
2025-01-22
Title

Quantitative data of a molluscan community living in Posidonia oceanica at the south coast of Crete, Greece, 2017

Abstract

The dataset contains abundance data of benthic molluscs collected in a Posidonia oceanica meadow in Plakias, SW Crete, Greece, eastern Mediterranean Sea.

The sampling occurred in spring and autumn, along a depth transect with stations at 5, 10, 15 and 20 m, and separately for the leaf and rhizome strata. The minimum mesh size is 1 mm.

Dataset Language

ENGLISH

 
Dataset Creator
Metadata Provider
Associated Party

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
  Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn - Paolo G. Albano (Senior Scientist)

Villa Comunale

,

Naples

,

ITALY

Associated Party

CUSTODIAN_STEWARD
  Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Dimitra Mavraki (Data Manager)

Former U.S. Base of Gournes

,

Heraklion

,

Crete

,

71500

,

GREECE

Associated Party

CUSTODIAN_STEWARD
  Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Melina Loulakaki (Data curator)

Former U.S. Base of Gournes

,

Heraklion

,

Crete

,

71500

,

GREECE

Dataset Contact
Keywords (GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml)

  • sampling event

Keywords (none)

  • Posidonia oceanica;

Keywords (WoRMS)

  • Mollusca;

Keywords (none)

  • Lessepsian invasion;

Keywords (none)

  • Crete; Greece;

Keywords (Marine Regions)
Keywords (GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml)

  • Samplingevent

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

Plakias, SW Crete, Greece, eastern Mediterranean Sea. The station is located at 35.1796N 24.3957 E.

Bounding Box

West Bounding Coordinate

24.142

East Bounding Coordinate

24.637

North Bounding Coordinate

35.353

South Bounding Coordinate

34.994

Temporal Coverage

Single Date Time

2017-05-08

Temporal Coverage

Single Date Time

2017-09-24

Taxonomic Coverage

General Taxonomic Coverage

benthic molluscs collected in a Posidonia oceanica meadow in Plakias. Polyplacophora, Gastropoda, Bivalvia

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name

Phylum

Taxonomic Rank Value

Mollusca

resourceLicensesLicense Information

Intellectual Rights

This work is licensed under a

Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

.

Resource License

License Name

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

URL
https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html
Identifier

CC-BY-4.0

 

Distribution

Online

URL
https://ipt.medobis.eu/archive.do?r=posidoniaoceanica_crete
 

Additional Metadata

Metadata

GBIF Metadata Block

Date Stamp

2026-04-14T08:23:39Z

Citation

Holzknecht M (2025). Quantitative data of a molluscan community living in Posidonia oceanica at the south coast of Crete, Greece, 2017. Hellenic Center for Marine Research. Sampling event dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/fsegnf accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-04-14.

Bibliography

Martina Holzknecht Paolo G. Albano The molluscan assemblage of a pristine Posidonia oceanica meadow in the eastern Mediterranean (2022)

Albano P.G., Steger J., Bakker P.A.J., Bogi C., Bošnjak M., Guy-Haim T., Huseyinoglu M.F., LaFollette P.I., Lubinevsky H., Mulas M., Stockinger M., Azzarone M., Sabelli B., Numerous new records of tropical non-indigenous species in the Eastern Mediterranean highlight the challenges of their recognition and identification (2021)

Steger J., Stockinger M., Ivkić A., Galil B.S. and Albano P.G., New records of non-indigenous molluscs from the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Bioinvasions Records (2018) 7(3): 245–257

 

Project

• Project

Title

“Historical ecology of Lessepsian migration” project

Personnel

Individual Name

Given Name

Paolo G.

Surname

Albano

User ID

0000-0001-9876-1024

Role

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Abstract
Funding

Fieldwork was supported by the KWA–Kurzfristige Auslandstipendien of the University of Vienna. This research was conducted in the framework of the project “Historical ecology of Lessepsian migration” funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) P28983-B29 (PI: PGA). Martin Zuschin, University of Vienna, supported us throughout the whole project. The Mare Mundi and Dive2gether Marine Field Station in Crete hosted the team during fieldwork. Stefan Duijvestijn, Michael Holzknecht, Nadja Loferer and Denny Morchner supported sampling and lab work.

 
 

Methods

• Method

Method Step

Description

The area sampled is 1 m2 for each replicate. Each station has 6 replicates.

Sampling

Study Extent

Plakias Bay, Crete, Greece.

Sampling Description

SCUBA-Gear, Airlift-Sampler, Hand-nets, Stereomicroscopes