Corystes cassivelaunus (NT)
Short description
Observations of Corystes cassivelaunus were collected from the Baltic Sea area for the 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. Corystes cassivelaunus has been placed to the Red List category of Near Threatened (NT) 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 ;

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

MADS ;

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

Lineage
This dataset displays distribution of Corystes cassivelaunus according to HELCOM RED LIST assessment based on the following data sources: The records of species obtained from the species database of the Swedish Species Information Centre (Artportalen). (Downloaded from Artportalen on 27 June 2012)