ac2350c3-b912-4ce6-89bb-c922e15ec2cc University of Palermo Antonina Badalucco PhD student antonina.badalucco@unipa.it https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5003-0692 University of Palermo Sabrina Lo Brutto Associate Professor sabrina.lobrutto@unipa.it https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9964-904X University of Caen Normandy Jean Claude Dauvin Emeritierter Professor jean-claude.dauvin@unicaen.fr https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8361-5382 Nord University Mark John Costello Professor mark.j.costello@nord.no https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2362-0328 University of Palermo Antonina Badalucco PhD student antonina.badalucco@unipa.it https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5003-0692 University of Palermo Sabrina Lo Brutto Associate Professor sabrina.lobrutto@unipa.it https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9964-904X 2026-01-23 en The dataset collects all the nominal Amphipoda species retrieved from the scientific literature and the respective distribution across marine European and North Atlantic African waters. In this dataset, each record is associated with taxonomic information (i.e. species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom) and sampling event details including date, location and geographical coordinates. The records were retrieved together with the associated geographical coordinates (longitude and latitude); where publications did not provide geographical coordinates, the occurrences were placed at the point closest to the sampling site. The occurrence records included in the dataset were collected from 1936 to 2024. Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml Peracarida Amphipoda National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Organismal Classification (NCBITAXON): http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ncbitaxon.owl Europe Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names: https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/index.html Marine Environmental Thesaurus: https://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/ This work is licensed under a https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Access to GBIF record https://www.gbif.org/dataset/1260320d-5eb6-475b-bf4a-a60cf3f9e3e1 Download dataset (zip) https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/archive.do?r=european_marine_amphipods Data paper https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e186195 The study area encompasses the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean (from the North of Norway to the Cape Verde Archipelago, including the Icelandic waters), the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea. -31.37666 41.514 70.833 14.833 1936-01-01 2024-12-31 order Amphipoda University of Palermo Sabrina Lo Brutto Associate Professor sabrina.lobrutto@unipa.it https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9964-904X University of Caen Normandy Jean Claude Dauvin Emeritierter Professor jean-claude.dauvin@unicaen.fr https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8361-5382 Nord University Mark John Costello Professor mark.j.costello@nord.no https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2362-0328 Data were gathered from published scientific literature. The bibliographic search was conducted using Google Scholar's “Advanced Search” tool, using the keywords “amphipod*”, “peracarid*”, “Crustacea*”, “checklist" in combination with the names of European countries and seas, extending the search to the North African coast. About 150 articles have been consulted. Species occurring in benthic and pelagic, brackish, near-freshwater, or transitional ecosystems have been included to ensure a complete representation of species occupying the interface between marine and freshwater environments. Data were organised following the Darwin Core Standard. The taxonomic information has been updated in accordance with the World Amphipoda Database provided by World Marine Species Database (https://www.marinespecies.org/amphipoda/). The National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC) is the first National Research and Innovation Center dedicated to biodiversity, funded by the MUR through European Union funds - NextGenerationEU. It is a coordinating structure that unites and enhances research efforts, while simultaneously making knowledge and technologies accessible to diverse actors working on the territory. There are more than 2,000 researchers from research centers, universities and companies working within the center implementing basic, applied and innovation research actions dedicated to Mediterranean biodiversity to generate value for the country. The objective of this project is to identify suitable strategies for monitoring, conserving, restoring and valorising the biodiversity of species and habitats in different Italian regions. The Center provides scientific knowledge and technological innovation that make it possible to face biodiversity loss, support ecosystem resilience, monitor endangered species, and restore disturbed biological communities, contributing to the goal of protecting 30% of Italy's territory by 2030, as required by the European Union. Project funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), Mission 4 Component 2 Investment 1.4, NextGenerationEU. Award Number: Project code CN_00000033, Concession Decree No. 1034 of 17 June 2022 adopted by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, CUP B73C22000790001, Project title “National Biodiversity Future Center – NBFC”. University of Palermo Antonina Badalucco PhD student occurrence txt institutionCode Institution Code The name (or acronym) in use by the institution having custody of the object(s) or information referred to in the record. basisOfRecord Basis of Record The specific nature of the data record. occurrenceID Occurrence ID An identifier for the dwc:Occurrence (as opposed to a particular digital record of the dwc:Occurrence). In the absence of a persistent global unique identifier, construct one from a combination of identifiers in the record that will most closely make the dwc:occurrenceID globally unique. associatedReferences Associated References A list (concatenated and separated) of identifiers (publication, bibliographic reference, global unique identifier, URI) of literature associated with the dwc:Occurrence. projectTitle Project Title A list (concatenated and separated) of titles or names for projects that contributed to a dwc:Event. eventDate Event Date The date-time or interval during which a dwc:Event occurred. For occurrences, this is the date-time when the dwc:Event was recorded. Not suitable for a time in a geological context. higherGeography Higher Geography A list (concatenated and separated) of geographic names less specific than the information captured in the dwc:locality term. waterBody Water Body The name of the water body in which the dcterms:Location occurs. locality Locality The specific description of the place. decimalLatitude Decimal Latitude The geographic latitude (in decimal degrees, using the spatial reference system given in dwc:geodeticDatum) of the geographic center of a dcterms:Location. Positive values are north of the Equator, negative values are south of it. Legal values lie between -90 and 90, inclusive. decimalLongitude Decimal Longitude The geographic longitude (in decimal degrees, using the spatial reference system given in dwc:geodeticDatum) of the geographic center of a dcterms:Location. Positive values are east of the Greenwich Meridian, negative values are west of it. Legal values lie between -180 and 180, inclusive. geodeticDatum Geodetic Datum The ellipsoid, geodetic datum, or spatial reference system (SRS) upon which the geographic coordinates given in dwc:decimalLatitude and dwc:decimalLongitude are based. verbatimIdentification Verbatim Identification A string representing the taxonomic identification as it appeared in the original record. acceptedNameUsageID Accepted Name Usage ID An identifier for the name usage (documented meaning of the name according to a source) of the currently valid (zoological) or accepted (botanical) taxon. scientificName Scientific Name The full scientific name, with authorship and date information if known. When forming part of a dwc:Identification, this should be the name in lowest level taxonomic rank that can be determined. This term should not contain identification qualifications, which should instead be supplied in the dwc:identificationQualifier term. acceptedNameUsage Accepted Name Usage The full name, with authorship and date information if known, of the currently valid (zoological) or accepted (botanical) dwc:Taxon. kingdom Kingdom The full scientific name of the kingdom in which the dwc:Taxon is classified. phylum Phylum The full scientific name of the phylum or division in which the dwc:Taxon is classified. class Class The full scientific name of the class in which the dwc:Taxon is classified. order Order The full scientific name of the order in which the dwc:Taxon is classified. family Family The full scientific name of the family in which the dwc:Taxon is classified. genus Genus The full scientific name of the genus in which the dwc:Taxon is classified. taxonRank Taxon Rank The taxonomic rank of the most specific name in the dwc:scientificName. scientificNameAuthorship Scientific Name Authorship The authorship information for the dwc:scientificName formatted according to the conventions of the applicable dwc:nomenclaturalCode.