Macroplea mutica (LC)
Short description
Observations of Macroplea mutica were collected from the Baltic Sea area for HELCOM Red List species list. The HELCOM Red List of Baltic Sea species in danger of becoming extinct (2013) is the first threat assessment for Baltic Sea species that covers all marine mammals, fish, birds, macrophytes (aquatic plants), and benthic invertebrates, and follows the Red List criteria of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Almost 2800 species were considered in the Red List assessment and about 1750 were evaluated according to the IUCN Red List criteria. Macroplea mutica has been placed to the Red List category of Least Concern (LC) species. Dataset for download contains spatial grid of the Baltic Sea. Distribution of the species can be found in corresponding name column. Values are coded: 1 - Present before year 2000 or in 2000, 2 - Present after year 2000, 3 - Present both before and after year 2000.
Point of contact
HELCOM Secretariat
data@helcom.fi
Spatial extent
['0.579301', '50.560882', '46.304946', '72.66441']
Type
dataset
Metadata information
Identifier
Keywords
Species distribution ; GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ;

invertebrate ; benthic ecosystem ; distribution ; red list ; GEMET ;

MADS ;

Resource provider(s)
HELCOM Secretariat
data@helcom.fi

Lineage
This dataset displays distribution of Macroplea mutica according to HELCOM RED LIST assessment based on the following data sources: The georeferenced records of species compiled from the Danish national database for marine data (MADS), the species database of Swedish Species Information Centre (Artportalen), Estonian eBiodiversity web interface, data of the Finnish coleopteran expert team and Silfverberg (1987). Data from Poland is missing from the map. (Data downloaded from MADS in June 2011 and received from Finnish coleopteran expert team in November 2012)