Biodiversity Journal, 2017, 8 (2): 391–394 MONOGRAPH The 17th International Colloquium on Amphipoda Sabrina Lo Brutto1,2,*, Eugenia Schimmenti1 & Davide Iaciofano1 1Dept. STEBICEF, Section of Animal Biology, via Archirafi 18, Palermo, University of Palermo, Italy 2Museum of Zoology “Doderlein”, SIMUA, via Archirafi 16, University of Palermo, Italy *Corresponding author, email: [email protected] th th ABSTRACT The 17 International Colloquium on Amphipoda (17 ICA) has been organized by the University of Palermo (Sicily, Italy), and took place in Trapani, 4-7 September 2017. All the contributions have been published in the present monograph and include a wide range of topics. KEY WORDS International Colloquium on Amphipoda; ICA; Amphipoda. Received 30.04.2017; accepted 31.05.2017; printed 30.06.2017 Proceedings of the 17th International Colloquium on Amphipoda (17th ICA), September 4th-7th 2017, Trapani (Italy) The first International Colloquium on Amphi- Poland, Turkey, Norway, Brazil and Canada within poda was held in Verona in 1969, as a simple meet- the Scientific Committee: ing of specialists interested in the Systematics of Sabrina Lo Brutto (Coordinator) - University of Gammarus and Niphargus. Palermo, Italy Now, after 48 years, the Colloquium reached the Elvira De Matthaeis - University La Sapienza, 17th edition, held at the “Polo Territoriale della Italy Provincia di Trapani”, a site of the University of Felicita Scapini - University of Firenze, Italy Palermo, in Italy; and for the second time in Sicily Alberto Ugolini - University of Firenze, Italy (Lo Brutto et al., 2013). Maria Beatrice Scipione - Stazione Zoologica The Organizing and Scientific Committees were Anton Dohrn, Italy composed by people from different countries. Murat Özbek - Ege University Faculty of Exclusively from Italy within the Organizing Fisheries, Turkey Committee: Michał Grabowski - University of Lodz, Poland Sabrina Lo Brutto (Coordinator) - University of Oliver Coleman - Museum für Naturkunde, Palermo, Italy Germany Marco Arculeo - University of Palermo, Italy José Manuel Guerra García - Universidad de Vincenzo Arizza - University of Palermo, Italy Sevilla, Spain Mirella Vazzana - University of Palermo, Italy Jan Beermann - Alfred Wegener Institute, Elvira De Matthaeis - University La Sapienza, Germany Italy Filipe Costa - University of Minho, Portugal Felicita Scapini - University of Firenze, Italy Ed Hendrycks - Canadian Museum of Nature, Alberto Ugolini - University of Firenze, Italy Canada Eugenia Schimmenti - University of Palermo, Cristiana Serejo - Universidade Federal do Rio Italy de Janeiro, Brasil Davide Iaciofano - University of Palermo, Italy. Anne Helene Tandberg - University Museum of And from Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Bergen, Norway 392 LO BRUTTO ET ALII Anne-Nina Lörz - CeNak-Universität Hamburg, Post-Doc). The country which the highest number Germany. of participants came from was Italy with 24 parti- The Honorarium Committee was the one con- cipants (of these 11 students), followed by Poland firmed from the previous meetings: (12 participants, of these 4 students), and Tunisia Claude de Broyer - Royal Belgian Institute of and Germany (9 participants, of these 4 students, Natural Sciences, Belgium both) (Fig. 2). Several students came also from Faouzia Charfi-Cheikhrouha - University of different countries, maybe due to the low cost of the Tunis El Manar, Tunisia registration fee. Krzysztof Jażdżewski - University of Lodz, As a matter of fact, the Colloquium gave a Poland particular attention to needs of young students and Gordan Karaman - Montenegrin Academy of offered travel grants, thanks to Filipe Costa, under Sciences and Arts, Montenegro the supervising of Jan Beermann. Traudl Krapp-Schickel - Alexander Koenig The meeting was an opportunity for youngs, as Research Museum, Germany it registered the most authoritative Amphipodolo- Jim Lowry - Australian Museum Sydney, gists of the world. On the basis of a quick search on Australia the Web of Science and Scopus databases, we can Ilona Muskó - BLRI, Hungarian Academy of assert that all the participants have been authors of Sciences, Tihany, Hungary more than 2,500 papers published in peer reviewed Alan Myers - National University of Ireland, journals, with more than 38,500 citations. The num- Ireland bers increase if journals without impact factors are Boris Sket - University of Ljubljana, Slovenia included. Wim Vader - Tromsø Museum, Norway. The International Colloquia on Amphipoda are commonly a meeting point between various amphi- The Colloquium included a great variety of stud- ies on Amphipoda (Systematics, Ecology, Biogeo- pod specialists with a very high scientific impact on graphy, Physiology, Genetics, etc.), all presented in academic community and an occasion of transfer information and knowledge. 3 plenary lectures, 62 oral communications, and 57 th posters, and published in the present issue, thanks The 17 International Colloquium on Amphi- to Members of the Scientific Committee, which re- poda was opened by James K. Lowry & Alan A. viewed the contributions and significantly helped Myers; they reported a new classification of Am- in assessing and improving these proceedings. phipoda, establishing the new order Ingolfiellida There were 120 participants, from the 33 coun- (Lowry & Myers, 2017). From the first contribu- tries (Fig. 1) of which 41% students (MS, PhD or tions, it pointed out clearly that our knowledge on Figure 1. Map of countries which the 17th ICA 122 participants came from. The 17th International Colloquium on Amphipoda 393 Figure 2. Number of participants per country (blue, regular participants; red, students) amphipods diversity is still poor (Hughes, 2017; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Satyam et al., 2017; Zakhama-Sraieb et al., 2017); and regarding the alien species, the knowledge The University of Palermo organized the 17th of this taxon results far from being exhaustive ICA, with the partnership of the Italian Zoological (Cardeccia & Marchini, 2017; Thomas & White, Union (UZI, www.uzionlus.it), Italian Society of 2017). Marine Biology (SIBM, www.sibm.it) and the During the Colloquium, special attention was Museum of Zoology “P. 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