Lake District meiofauna Workshop records

The present dataset refers to all the records of meiofauna collected from the English Lake District (UK) and identified during the First freshwater meiofauna workshop from 27th August to 11th September 2025, organised by the National History Museum of London. The data were structured based on the Darwin Core standard (Wieczorek et al., 2012). The dataset includes 299 occurrence records of 209 distinct taxa of meiofauna belonging to 46 families, 24 orders and 8 major taxonomic groups. More, two new species (Tardigrades) were found in the Lake District , a region of exceptional ecological and biogeographical interest. This dataset is integral part of the paper "Freshwater and limno-terrestrial meiofauna of the Lake District, UK" by Majdi et al., submitted to Biogeographia.