10.15468/gv8k7a https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/resource?r=licsic Laura Giordano Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze Marine Technologist laura.giordano@cnr.it Luciana Ferraro Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze Marine Researcher luciana.ferraro@cnr.it 2024-11-05 ENGLISH LiCSiC is composed of 13 micropaleontological slides collecting benthic foraminifera specimens from Linosa Island seafloor (depth ranging between 50 and 400 m). A total of 140 taxa were identified from the 13 sediment samples. This dataset is part of Activity WP6.6 “National network of the aquatic science collections” of the project funded by EU - Next Generation EU Mission 4 “Education and Research” - Component 2: “From research to business” - Investment 3.1: “Fund for the realisation of an integrated system of research and innovation infrastructures” - Project IR0000032 – ITINERIS - Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System - CUP B53C22002150006. Foraminifera Sicily Channel Italy Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html CC-BY-4.0 https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/archive.do?r=licsic Linosa Sicily Channel, Italy 12.834097 12.896356 35.867014 35.833039 Family Rosalinidae Family Mississippinidae Family Vaginulinidae Family Melonidae Family Planulinidae Family Homotrematidae Family Pseudogaudryinidae Class Globothalamea Family Asterigerinatidae  Family Gavelinellidae Family Bolivinitidae Family Fischerinidae Family Peneroplidae Family Amphisteginidae Kingdom Animalia Family Planorbulinidae Family Elphidiidae Class Tubothalamea Family Alabaminidae  Family Cibicididae Family Glandulinidae Family Buliminidae  Family Textulariidae Family Globobuliminidae Family Ellipsolagenidae Family Eponididae Family Anomalinidae Order Rotaliida Family Haplophragmoididae Family Ammosphaeroidinidae  Order Vaginulinida Family Ammoniidae Order Polymorphinida Family Nodosariidae Family Polymorphinidae Family Spiroplectamminidae Family Spiroloculinidae Order Nodosariida Class Nodosariata Phylum Foraminifera Family Spirillinidae Family Notorotaliidae Family Cassidulinidae Order Spirillinida Family Pulleniidae  Order Textulariida Order Rotalioidea Family Soritidae Family Uvigerinidae  Family Hauerinidae Family Cribrolinoididae Order Miliolida Order Lituolida Family Siphoninidae  Family Cymbaloporidae  asNeeded Laura Giordano Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze Marine Technologist laura.giordano@cnr.it Luciana Ferraro Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze Marine Researcher luciana.ferraro@cnr.it Edoardo Di Russo Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze Marine Technician edoardo.dirusso@cnr.it Simona Armeli Minicante Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze Marine Technologist simona.armeliminicante@cnr.it Benthic foraminiferal specimens were picked, from a sediment fraction >125µ of each sample, and collected in microslides. The image dataset of benthic foraminifera was acquired from living and dead foraminiferal specimens. Benthic foraminiferal tests were examined and photographed using an optical stereomicroscope (model Zeiss SteREO Discovery V.8). Optical images were acquired with a 16× Ocular, S1.0× Objective Plan, and processed via the microscope imaging software Zen Lite (v. 2012 SP1 black edition, 64 bit). Sedimentological data were collected by the National Research Council, Institute of Marine Sciences (CNR-ISMAR) of Naples (Italy) during two oceanographic surveys, ‘Linosa 2016’ (17-19 August 2016) and ‘BioGeoLin 2017’ (8-20 September 2017), onboard the R/V Minerva UNO. About 50 cm3 of sediments samples of the box corer and Van Veen grab were collected with a tube of 8 cm in diameter from the interval 0-1 cm of the seafloor for the foraminiferal analyses, and treated following the FOBIMO protocol (Schönfeld et al., 2012), to facilitate distinguishing living from dead foraminiferal tests (see Ferraro et al., 2020 for details). Laura Giordano ADMINISTRATIVE_POINT_OF_CONTACT Luciana Ferraro ADMINISTRATIVE_POINT_OF_CONTACT Project ‘Implementation of research activity and monitoring around Pelagie Islands Marine Protected Area’, within the project ‘CAmBiA – Contabilità Ambientale e Bilancio Ambientale’ funded by the Ministry of the Environment and Protection of Land and Sea (MATTM – Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare), Directive n° 5135 of March 2015; RITMARE Flagship Project, funded by Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR – Ministero dell’Istruzione dell’Università e della Ricerca) [NRP 2011-2013]. 2026-03-16T18:15:13Z Giordano L, Ferraro L (2024). LiCSiC - Foraminifera Linosa Sicily Channel Collection. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze Marine. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/gv8k7a accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-03-16. Collezione Foraminifera - LiCSiC OTHER