A contribution to the inventory of marine amphipod species from Italian waters based on unpublished sources and FAIR principles

Preprint ARPHA Preprints https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e189278 (25 Feb 2026) https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e189278 (25 Feb 2026) Published in: Biodiversity Data Journal https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e189256 Other versions: - Preprint InfoPreprint Info - CiteCite - MetricsMetrics - CommentComment - RelatedRelated - CitedCited ARPHA Preprints doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e189278 First posted 25 Feb 2026 Authors Department of Earth and Marine Science, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Palermo, Italy National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Trieste, Italy ARPA Sicilia - Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell'Ambiente, Palermo, Italy National Research Council (CNR), Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy ARPA Lazio, Dipartimento Stato dell’Ambiente, Rome, Italy Sea in Health and Life Srl, c/o Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, Messina, Italy Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy Department DEB, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Environment, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Bologna, Italy National Research Council (CNR), Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology (IRBIM), Lesina, Italy Departmet of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy International Marine Centre (IMC), Oristano, Italy Department of Earth and Marine Science, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy Via Rodolfo Lanciani 1 00019, Tivoli (RM), Italy Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione Ambientale della Toscana, Pisa, Italy ARPA Veneto - Regional Department of Environmental Quality, Venice, Italy ARPA Sicilia - Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell'Ambiente, Palermo, Italy Department DiSTeBA, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Palermo, Italy Department of Earth and Marine Science, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy ISPRA, Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Rome, Italy Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Environment, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy Departmet of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland National Research Council (CNR), Water Research Institute (IRSA), Taranto, Italy Department of Earth and Marine Science, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Palermo, Italy Arpac - Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione Ambientale in Campania, Campania, Italy Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli, Italy National Research Council (CNR), Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology (IRBIM), Lesina, Italy ARPA Sicilia - Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell'Ambiente, Palermo, Italy National Research Council (CNR), Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology (IRBIM), Lesina, Italy ISPRA, Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Rome, Italy ISPRA, Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Rome, Italy APLYSIA Soc. Coop. Ricerche applicate all'ecologia e alla biologia marina, Livorno, Italy National Research Council (CNR), Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), Lecce, Italy LifeWatch Italy, Lecce, Italy National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Palermo, Italy Sabrina Lo Brutto - Corresponding author National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Palermo, Italy Department of Earth and Marine Science, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy Conflict of interest The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Supporting agencies Project funded under the (a) National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4 Component 2 Investment 1.4, of the Italian Ministry of University and Research funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU; Project code CN_00000033, Concession Decree No. 1034 of 17 June 2022 adopted by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, CUP D33C22000960007 and CUP B73C22000790001, Project title “National Biodiversity Future Center – NBFC”; (b) Accordo Operativo MATTM-ISPRA-ARPA del 11 Gennaio 2018 di attuazione del D.Lgs. N. 190/2010 di recepimento della Direttiva 2008/56/CE (Direttiva Quadro sulla Strategia Marina) 2018-2020; (c) Accordo Operativo MATTM-ISPRA-ARPA del 28 Gennaio 2021 di attuazione del D.Lgs. N. 190/2010 di recepimento della Direttiva 2008/56/CE (Direttiva Quadro sulla Strategia Marina) 2021-2023; (d) this study was conducted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the PhD thesis of A. D. International PhD program ‘Innovative technologies and sustainable use of Mediterranean Sea fishery and Biological Resources’ (www.FishMed-PhD.org); (e) IDUB project B2211001000118.07 of the University of Lodz, Poland; (f) FFR-2025 by the University of Palermo. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.