Mobilising marine biodiversity data: a new malacological dataset of Italian records (Mollusca).

ABSTRACT:

Background

The location and palaeoceanographic history of the Mediterranean Sea make it a biodiversity hotspot, prompting extensive studies in this region. However, despite the marine biodiversity of this area being apparently widely studied, a large amount of distributional data for Mediterranean taxa is still unpublished or scattered in various sources and formats, causing severe limitations to their potential reuse. This emerges as a particularly thorny issue for highly biodiverse and neglected taxa, such as invertebrates. The mobilisation of these frozen data through a process of standardisation and georeferencing could potentially support biodiversity research and conservation. The aim of this work is to provide a standardised pipeline to integrate these dispersed data, focusi

SUBMITTER: Giannini A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11889433 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature