{"pk":39863,"title":"The conventional limits of the marine biogeographical Sector 4, for the new Checklist of the Italian Fauna","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The status of a distinct biogeographical sector for the area of the Strait of Messina has been widely acknowledged in the last two decades. However, clear-cut limits of this sectors have never been formalised. With the understanding that in nature the limits of biogeographical sectors are usually not clear-cut, and for the sake of unequivocally placing occurrences in this sector we have here: (1) summarized the history of the classification of the Strait of Messina as a biogeographical sector, and (2) provided the conventional limits of Sector 4, as far as possible reflecting main ecological traits and recognizable discontinuities with the neighbour sectors","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"biodiversity"},{"word":"Metazoa"},{"word":"Italy"},{"word":"marine species"},{"word":"biogeographical sectors"}],"section":"Special Section: The new Checklist of the Italian Fauna","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6780102w","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Salvatore","middle_name":"","last_name":"Giacobbe","name_suffix":"","institution":"Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Biologiche, Farmaceutiche e Ambientali, Università di\nMessina, Via Stagno d'Alcontres, 98166 Messina (Italy)","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Marco","middle_name":"","last_name":"Oliverio","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Biology and Biotechnologies \"Charles Darwin\", Sapienza University of Rome","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2024-08-16T16:19:42Z","date_accepted":"2024-08-16T16:19:42Z","date_published":"2024-11-26T06:36:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/biogeographia/article/39863/galley/30146/download/"}]}