Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e28937 doi: 10.3897/BDJ.6.e28937 Taxonomic Paper Macrobenthic fauna from an upwelling coastal area of Peru (Warm Temperate South-eastern Pacific province -Humboldtian ecoregion) Vicente Tasso‡, Mustapha El Haddad‡, Carolina Assadi‡§, Remy Canales , Luis Aguirre§, Ximena Vélez-Zuazo| ‡ Oceansnell, S.L. – Marine Environmental Consulting, Valencia, Spain § Laboratorio de Biología y Sistemática de Invertebrados Marinos (LabSIM), Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru | Center for Conservation and Sustainability, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC, United States of America Corresponding author: Ximena Vélez-Zuazo (
[email protected]) Academic editor: Dimitris Poursanidis Received: 07 Aug 2018 | Accepted: 31 Aug 2018 | Published: 10 Sep 2018 Citation: Tasso V, El Haddad M, Assadi C, Canales R, Aguirre L, Vélez-Zuazo X (2018) Macrobenthic fauna from an upwelling coastal area of Peru (Warm Temperate South-eastern Pacific province -Humboldtian ecoregion). Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e28937. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e28937 ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:199ADEC6-971F-41BF-ADE6-0FE6DD74BD07 Abstract Background A total of 162 species and subspecies of marine macroinvertebrates were recorded in the submerged soft and hard substrates around the PERU LNG marine terminal and surrounding area, in the central coast of Peru, 167 km south of Lima, Peru. The collection of specimens was carried out from June 2011 to June 2015 as part of the research studies conducted by the Biodiversity Monitoring and Assessment Program (BMAP) around the marine terminal. The area is part of the Humboldt Current Large Marine Ecosystem, one of the most important upwelling systems in the world.