My principal fields of research are the integrative taxonomy and ecology of copepods. My taxonomic expertise is focused on planktonic species and on their developmental stages. I am responsible of mesozooplankton data-set at the Long Term Ecological Research MareChiara time-series (LTER, EU-IT 061) in the Gulf of Naples (Italy, Mediterranean Sea). I am author of Temora Baird, 1850. ICES Identification Leaflets for Plankton No. 195., Checklist of the Italian Fauna of LifeWatch-IT for Crustacea Copepoda Calanoida, Cyclopoida, Harpacticoida, Mormonilloida, Siphonostomatoida (marine planktonic) and collaborator of different Plankton Guides for Italian Ministry of the Environment, ICRAM and Marine Plankton: A Practical Guide to Ecology, Methodology and Taxonomy Edited by Claudia Castellani & Martin Edwards.
My expertise is regularly used to teach copepods identification to a wide range of learners, from outreach events, to university students and other research scientists. I consider WoRMS the most useful and user-friendly database and I am interested in expanding the incorporation of copepods HD-images in WoRMS by integrating with other databases. I have a particular interest in adding additional diagnostic character of species descriptions so that they are more readily available to users for identification purposes, and also biological and ecological traits.
Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Dohrn' of Naples (SZN), more
Direct contact at institute: Tel.: +39 081 58 33 290 E-mail:
Association of European Marine Biological Laboratories Expanded, more
I. Di Capua, F. Margiotta, M.A. Ambrosio, M.G. Mazzocchi; Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (SZN), Italy; (2024): Zooplankton data at the LTER "MareChiara" site (Gulf of Naples, Mediterranea Sea) from 1995 to 2015., more
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Accessed at https://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda on yyyy-mm-dd, more
