title: Marine Bryozoa of Greece: an annotated checklist.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Until today, a complete checklist of Bryozoa of the Greek seas had never been published and species records were scattered in several taxonomic and ecological studies. The aim of this paper is to produce a first checklist of marine bryozoan species of Greece, in the framework of the Greek Taxon Information System (GTIS) initiative of the LifeWatchGreece Research Infrastructure (ESFRI), by reviewing the existing literature and following the recent trends in the taxonomy of this group. ﻿.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The marine bryozoan fauna of Greece comprises 237 species, classified in 127 genera, 66 families, 3 orders, and 2 classes. The vast majority belongs to the class Gymnolaemata (177 Cheilostomatida and 21 Ctenostomatida), while the remaining 39 species are Stenolaemata (all Cyclostomatida). Among these species, 12 are considered endemic to the eastern Mediterranean, while another 12 species are non-indigenous.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Heraklion, Greece.
authors.forename: Vasilis
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gerovasileiou
authors.affiliation: Sezione di Scienze della Terra, Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy; Unità di Ricerca di Catania, Consorzio Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare (CoNISMa), Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Antonietta
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rosso
keywords: Aegean Sea; Biodiversity; Eastern Mediterranean.﻿; Ionian Sea; Levantine Sea; Sea of Crete