Check List 12(1): e19423, doi: 10.15560/12.1.1821
Checklist of benthic macroinvertebrates of the Lago Pratignano (northern Apennines, Italy): an extremely rich ecosystem
Ivano Ansaloni‡, Daniela Prevedelli‡, Matteo Ruocco‡, Roberto Simonini‡‡ University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Corresponding author: Matteo Ruocco ( matteo.ruocco@unimore.it ) © 2017 Ivano Ansaloni, Daniela Prevedelli, Matteo Ruocco, Roberto Simonini. This is an open access article 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.
Citation:
Ruocco M, Ansaloni I, Prevedelli D, Simonini R (2016) Checklist of benthic macroinvertebrates of the Lago Pratignano (northern Apennines, Italy): an extremely rich ecosystem. Check List 12(1): 1821. https://doi.org/10.15560/12.1.1821 |  |
Abstract
A checklist of the macroinvertebrates fauna of the Lago Pratignano is presented here. The Lago Pratignano is a small, natural water body of the high (1,307 m above sea level) Northern Apennines, Italy. It represents an important site for the conservation of endangered flora and amphibians, and its importance for the conservation of the macroinvertebrate fauna is highlighted. The 82 taxa recorded make it an extremely rich habitat. The most represented group was Diptera, with 31 taxa, followed by Coleoptera, with nine, and Oligochaeta and Arachnida, each with eight taxa. Other groups are present in lower numbers. Despite the scant attention to theP study of the macroinvertebrates of small lentic habitats in the Northern Apennines, their importance for the conservation of the invertebrate fauna and the high contribution they give to the biodiversity is highlighted here.
Keywords
biodiversity; ponds; macrozoobenthos community; Parco del Frignano; Modena