Benthic Marine Collection
Researchers of ISPRA’s Laboratory of Benthic Ecology (LEB) have been studying marine biodiversity for 15 years through the analysis of the macroinvertebrate benthic fauna collected during several research projects aimed at investigating soft bottoms of the Italian coastal marine and brackish environments.
Over the years researchers have sampled, identified and stored huge amounts of specimens typical of different environments and biogeographical zones.
The specimens included in the macroinvertebrate benthic collection belong mainly to the most representative taxonomic groups of the marine and brackish environments investigated, such as Annelid Polychaetes, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Echinoderms together with minor taxonomic groups such as Pycnogonids and Bryozoans.
Researchers of ISPRA’s Laboratory of Benthic Ecology (LEB) in order to make available all information coming from the studies on marine biodiversity, are working on the classification of the collected specimens, in order to create a collection of benthic marine organisms of soft bottoms, that will be included as a thematic section in the pre-existing ISPRA collections
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