Biodiversity Data Journal 8: e53818 doi: 10.3897/BDJ.8.e53818 Research Article Marine invertebrate and seaweed biodiversity of continental coastal Ecuador Maritza Cárdenas-Calle‡,§, Elba Mora ‡, Genoveva Torres‡,§, Julián Pérez-Correa‡,|, Gregorio Bigatti¶,|, Javier Signorelli¶#, Jorge Coronel ‡ División Ambiental. Bioelite. Cdla. Bosques el Salado Mz 301 solar 2B frente a Ciudad Colón, Guayaquil, Ecuador § Universidad de Guayaquil. Ciudadela Universitaria Salvador Allende, Av. Delta y Av. Kennedy, Guayaquil, Ecuador | Universidad Espíritu Santo. Km. 2.5 vía La Puntilla, Samborondón, Ecuador ¶ Laboratorio de Reproducción y Biología Integrativa de Invertebrados Marinos (LARBIM), IBIOMAR–CONICET. Bvd. Brown 2915 (PC 9120), Puerto Madryn, Argentina # Universidad Agraria del Ecuador. Av. 25 de Julio y Pio Jaramillo, Guayaquil, Ecuador Corresponding author: Maritza Cárdenas-Calle (
[email protected]) Academic editor: Nicolas Bailly Received: 30 Apr 2020 | Accepted: 26 Jun 2020 | Published: 30 Jul 2020 Citation: Cárdenas-Calle M, Mora E, Torres G, Pérez-Correa J, Bigatti G, Signorelli J, Coronel J (2020) Marine invertebrate and seaweed biodiversity of continental coastal Ecuador. Biodiversity Data Journal 8: e53818. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e53818 Abstract This study summarises the diversity of living macroinvertebrates and seaweeds from the intertidal and subtidal rocky shores along Ecuadorian continental coast. Benthic macroinvertebrate communities and seaweeds were quantified over quadrants (50 × 50 cm) randomly placed on transects of 50 m length. A checklist of 612 species was generated: 479 species of macroinvertebrates and 133 species of seaweeds. Groups recorded were Mollusca (184 species), Cnidaria (70), Arthropoda (68), Annelida (60), Echinodermata (42), Chordata (18), Bryozoa (13), Porifera (22), Sipuncula (2), Brachiopoda and Platyhelminthes (only identified as morphotypes).