The Albano Seamount reaches 250 m water depth in the northern Tyrrhenian Sea, just 45 km offshore the coast of Anzio and the name is related to the region of the Albano Lake. The Albano Seamount is not very well known and it was discussed only in the scientific papers that came out after the first seismic and geological explorations of the Italian seas in the early ‘60s. It was mentioned for example in Savelli and Wezel (1980). Biogenic calcareous sands characterized by the presence of bryozoans and brachiopods were sampled on its summit area (Finetti and Del Ben, 1986). No information about benthic communities of the Albano Seamount has been found in scientific literature. Data from the Atlas of the Mediterranean Seamounts (Würtz & Rovere, 2015).
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