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stored in WoRMS WoRMS Data Management Team Overview presentation World Register of Marine Species Species attributes what is available in WoRMS Environment Fossil or recent ID: 758249

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Slide1

Overview attributes information stored in WoRMS

WoRMS Data Management TeamSlide2

Overview presentation

World Register of Marine SpeciesSpecies attributes – what

is available in WoRMS?EnvironmentFossil

or recentFeeding typesHost-parasite

relationshipsFunctional group (benthos/plankton)Legal status

Alien speciesSpecial collections in WoRMS

Type notesSlide3

WoRMS in a nutshell

Started in 2007Grew out of the European Register of Marine

Species (EU FP6 MarBEF) First authoritative, standard

list of names of all marine & brackish water taxa

worldwide= expert-based, not just

a names index (editor input!)Taxa are

classified in a taxonomic tree, and linked with

synonyms & commonly used spelling

mistakesVLIZ as permanent host institute

Open acces Web-based, including web services

Follows international standards & serve permanent Global Unique Identifiers (LSIDs

)Up-to-date and (near) complete, including

synonyms & commonly used spelling

variationsSlide4

Attributes: Environment

Structured informationMarine – brackish

– fresh – terrestrialTo

be answered by: yes

– no - unknownEnvironment combinations possible

StatisticsAccepted

(infra)species in WoRMS: 323 741Accepted (infra)species

with environment: 201 089 (= 62%)Unaccepted + quarantined

species in WoRMS: 176 598Unaccepted + quarantined

species with environment: 78 074 (= 44%)Slide5

Attributes: fossil range

Structured information

Recent only – fossil only

– fossil and recentStatistics323 741

accepted (infra)species in WoRMS3 492 accepted (

infra)species with ‘fossil

only’ flag171 accepted (infra

)species with ‘fossil and recent’ flag

23 490 accepted (infra)species

with ‘recent only’ flagSlide6

Attributes: fossil range – planned

development

Addition of actual fossil range

According to International Stratigraphic Chart (

version Sept 2010)Hierarchical structure (

Eon – Era – System Period – Series Epoch – Stage

Age)Add multiple stratigraphic occurrences

per taxonLinked to a source/reference

List chronologically: First

appearance date (FAD)Last appearance date (LAD)

SearchableSlide7

Attributes: feeding type

Structured informationIndication of:

Feeding type (pick list, 24 options)Stage (

pick list, 13 options)Host

SourceStatistics:9 400 species with documented

feeding typeSlide8

Attributes: host-parasite relationships

Structured information

Through feeding type => indication of parasite & hostClear

link between host & parasiteStatistics3 997 host species

4 337 parasite species14 695 host-parasite relations (more than 1 parasite species

for a host)Majority

documented for Copepoda (14 372 relations)Other

groups:Insecta, Nematoda,

Crustacea, Cestoda, Hirudinea, Mesozoa

& PolychaetaIncentive of WoRMS to further

document this (cfr. WoRMS parasite portal)

Expert help required!Slide9

PARASITE

HOSTSlide10

Attributes: functional groups (

benthos/plankton)

Document the benthic or planktonic nature of marine species

Requested by European Commission

in EMODnet projectIn development within WoRMS

Followed procedure:Extract higher classification

from ERMS (European scope)

Assign attribute on higher

tax. level Automatic

assignment of attribute to all lower

levels (=> exceptions possible)

Literature sourcesSystematic

revision of basic-classic invertebrate bibliography

e.g. Brusca & Brusca, 1990 & Rupert

&

Barnes

, 1994

More

specific

publications

e

.g.

for

groups

with

more complex

life

cycles

&

ecology

& recent research

Document

functional

group

+

life

stageSlide11

Statistics3 105 families

extracted from WoRMS (=ERMS families)2 241 families

with indication benthos/plankton for

at least adult stage431 families irrelevant

for exercise or to be considered later (e.g. birds

, mammals, fish)432 families currently

unknown

Taxonomic level

#(sub)phylum

26Class (super/sub/

infra)39

Order (super/sub/infra)

66(super)family26

Genus/species299Slide12

Encountered

problemsMost descriptions

respond to taxonomical necessities and just

outline general ecology

“usually planktonic”“mostly pelagic

”“some parasite species”

Existing lists or

classifications are frequently based on a

regional purpose and do not permit

extrapolation of information beyond their

purpose“Guide to the British Marine

Nemerteans”: species can be

extracted, but not sure

whether all species of the same genus/family/… have

same

ecology

all over the

world

SAHFOS list of planktonic species

”:

cannot

always

derive

if

it

concerns

larva

/

adult

species and

whether

higher

levels

(genus/

family

/…) have

same

ecologySlide13

Proposed

subdivision for life stages (

larva/adult) is insufficient:

Different larval stages, no larval stages

but several juvenile stages, …Example -

Hydrozoa

Ordo

Actinulida

larvae

:

planula

plankton

Ordo

Actinulida

larvae: polyp

absent or pelagic

Ordo

Actinulida

adult: medusae

plankton

Ordo

Limnomedusae

larvae

:

planula

plankton

Ordo

Limnomedusae

larvae: polyp

benthos

Ordo

Limnomedusae

adult:

medusae

plankton

Distinction

/

relation

between

habitat & feeding type:

Facultative

parasitism

:

As parasite => part of

other

individual

that

e.g. lives in planktonic environment

Free-living

=>

benthic

Mixotrophic

dinoflagellates

:

Mixotrophic

=>

related

to

feeding

type

Can

be

both

plankton or

benthos

(bio-film)Slide14

Changing phylogeny

and classification can lead

to errorsE.g. Phylum Heterokontophyta

no longer accepted

=> now OchrophytaE.g. Ordo Kinetoplastida

is now Class Kinetoplastida

Expert input

will

be

required

!Slide15

Attributes: legal status

Provided through PESI

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (stored

in WoRMS, as a note)2 315 values

CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of wild Flora and Fauna1 174 values

EU Habitat Directive2 244 values

EU Birds Directive308 valuesOSPAR List of Threatened and/or Declining Species and Habitats

43 values (OSPAR regions where species is under threat and/or in decline)Slide16

Search for IUCN in

development within WoRMSSlide17

Attributes: alien species

Information from different sources

:Delivering Alien Invasive

Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)

Global Invasive Species Database (GISD) & Global Register of Invasive Species (GRIS)MolnarGalil

HayesLasram-MouilotWork

in progress within WoRMSFine-tune

terminologies of different listsWork out procedure for

editors to add the ‘alien’

attribute to a species and a distributionStatistics

2 369 alien species9 866 alien distribution recordsSlide18

Attributes: special collections in WoRMS

Certain attribute information

can also be

stored in a WoRMS ‘context’Already available

:Deep-sea (WoRDDS)IOC-UNESCO taxonomic

reference list of harmful micro algae (HAB)

Work in progress:Marine

Invasive SpiesSlide19

WoRMS offers

option

to store information in free text

fields, as ‘notes’=

unstructured information, very hard to search through

79 different ‘note types’, of which

32 potentially contain relevant attribute

informationBreeding/breeding

category/reproduction 1 757 notes

Diet/feeding/food/predators 2 186 notes

Dimensions/length/

morphology/… > 12 000 notesEnvironment/

ecology/habitat/association/… > 20 000 notes

Stratigraphy/fossil range/extinction

665

notes

Importance

/IUCN red list

category

742

notes

Alien

species/

introduction

190

notes

Harmful

effect/

toxicology

/

toxic

strains

117

notes

Check

relevance

&

option

to

convert

to

structured

attribute

Attributes

:

information

captured

in ‘

notes

’Slide20

Thank you

!Any questions

?Slide21

Feeding type – pick lists

Feeding typeDeposit

feederDeposit feeder:

selectiveDeposit feeder: non-selective

Deposit feeder: surfaceDeposit

feeder: sub-surfaceEpigrowth

feederPredator/omnivoreParasiteParasitic

: endoparasiticParasitic: ectoparasitic

Suspension feederSuspension feeder:

facultativeOmnivorePredatorScavenger

GrazerNot feedingCarnivore

Detritus feederHerbivoreInterface grazer

Filter feederSymbiotic: unspecified type

unknown

Stage

Egg

Juvenile

adult

Larva

Postlarva

Spat

Subadult

Zoea

Nauplius

Polyp

Medusa

Ephyra

megalopa