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COMARGE (Continental MARGin Ecosystems on a worldwide scale) is a project of the Census of Marine Life, a decennial programme aiming at assessing and explaining the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the oceans.
The scope of COMARGE is the biota living on the seafloor of deep continental margins, between about 200 m and 3000 m depth. The project was launched in 2005 with the main purposes of:

• Increasing the understanding of biodiversity patterns on continental margins, from the local to the global scale.
• Fostering data archiving, data exchange and data access.
• Popularizing the results of the project and heightening public awareness of the diversity of continental margins.