Amphipoda fauna brings up to date the knowledge on the eastern Mediterranean deep-sea biodiversity.

Abstract

This study improves the knowledge of the bathymetric distribution of deep-sea amphipods including the addition of new records. Recently, studies have revealed that the deep-sea biodiversity of both the Eastern and the Western basins of the Mediterranean Sea is similar, however Amphipoda taxon still shows a low richness in the Levantine Basin compared with the Western basin.