Limnetica, 38(1): 167-187 (2019). DOI: 10.23818/limn.38.01 © Asociación Ibérica de Limnología, Madrid. Spain. ISSN: 0213-8409 An account on the non-malacostracan crustacean fauna from the inland waters of Crete, Greece, with the synonymization of Arctodiaptomus piliger Brehm, 1955 with Arctodiaptomus alpinus (Imhof, 1885) (Copepoda: Calanoida) Federico Marrone1,*, Giuseppe Alfonso2, Fabio Stoch3, Valentina Pieri4, Miguel Alonso5, Michalis Dretakis6 and Luigi Naselli-Flores7 1 Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies – Section of Zoology, University of Palermo, via Archirafi 18, 90123 Palermo, Italy. 2 Di.S.Te.B.A., University of Salento, s.p. Lecce-Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy. 3 Evolutionary Biology & Ecology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Brussels, Belgium. 4 University of Parma, Department of Chemistry, Life Science and Environmental Sustainability, 43124 Parma, Italy. 5 Ecology Section, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Avda. Diagonal 643, 08028 Barcelona, Spain. 6 Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete, Knossos Av., P.O. Box 2208, 714 09 Heraklion, Crete, Greece. 7 Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies – Section of Botany and Plant Ecology, University of Palermo, via Archirafi 28, 90123 Palermo, Italy. * Corresponding author:
[email protected] Received: 15/02/18 Accepted: 11/05/18 ABSTRACT An account on the non-malacostracan crustacean fauna from the inland waters of Crete, Greece, with the synonymi- zation of Arctodiaptomus piliger Brehm, 1955 with Arctodiaptomus alpinus (Imhof, 1885) The Mediterranean bioregion is widely recognised as a biodiversity hotspot and its inland waters are among the species richest ecosystems of the northern hemisphere.