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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