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LifeWatch-WoRMS workshops and grants organized in 2016 (call 2015)

Editor workshops supported by LifeWatch

Out of the received applications for the LifeWatch call 2015, 4 workshops were granted financial support and they all took place between February and May 2016.

The workshop reports can be found here.

Group Responsible editor(s) When? Where? Program
Ascidiacea World Database Marc Rius 15-17 February 2016 Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Ostend Program
World Register of Marine Cave Species Nicolas Bailly & Vasilis Gerovasileiou 22-25 February 2016 Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Ostend Program
World Amphipoda Database Tammy Horton 4-5 April 2016 Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Ostend Program
World List of Ostracoda Simone Brandão 17-20 May 2016 Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Ostend Program

 

Data grants supported by LifeWatch

Following the LifeWatch call 2015, 17 of the received applications were granted, and a total of 73.000 € has been invested through LifeWatch.

The data grant reports can be found here.

Group Responsible editor(s) Duration Expected results
Amphipoda - Lysianassoidea Michael Thurston, Tammy Horton December 2015 - May 2016
  • Documentation of the basionym, missing authorships, original description (with PDF), type locality, type species, environment, depth range for deep-sea taxa, and addition of identification resources, for ca. 1042 accepted species
  • Confirmation of the deep-sea context for ca. 1042 accepted species
Amphipoda - Niphargidae Cene Fiser, Tammy Horton December 2015 - April 2016
  • Addition of 50-70 species (or revision of their subspecific rank)
  • Documentation of the basionym, missing authorships, original description (with PDF), type locality, type species, environment, distributions (with sources), and identification resources, for min. 330 accepted species
Amphipoda - Non-marine Gammaroidea (excluding Baikalian taxa) Tomasz Mamos, Michal Gabrowksi & Tammy Horton December 2015 - May 2016
  • Documentation of the basionym, missing authorities, original description (with PDF), status reference, type locality, type species, environment, habitat, distributions (with sources), and identification resources
Amphipoda - Non-marine taxa Risto Väinölä, Mikhail Daneliya & Tammy Horton December 2015 - April 2016
  • Documentation of the basionym, missing authorships, original description (with PDF), status reference, type locality, type species, environment, habitat, distributions (with sources), and identification resources, for min. 400 names.
Asteroidea - Southern Ocean taxa Quentin Jossart & Bruno Danis January 2016 - April 2016
  • Update of RAMS/WoRMS based on a recent review paper
  • Addition of 97 new species
  • Digitization and upload of 11 legacy books, containing original descriptions for ca. 70% of the species
  • Documentation of basionyms and type localities
  • Upload of new high resolution macro images of selected specimens
  • Creation of a prototype identification key for the Odontasteridae family (16 species in RAMS)
  • Provision of hotlinks to e.g. Barcode of Life and SCAR Antarctic Field Guides
Hippoidea, Epicaridea, and Rhizocephala Christopher Boyko November 2015 - April 2016
  • Completion of type localities for about 1.700 taxa
  • Completion of type hosts for about 1.550 taxa
  • Addition of PDFs of original descriptions for about 1.700 taxa
Isopoda - Marine, non-parasitic taxa Kelly Merrin & Gary Poore December 2015 - June 2016
  • Completion of the authority and original description source for ca. 1000 names
  • Completion of the type localities for about two-thirds of the isopod species
Isopoda - Oniscidea Stefano Taiti December 2015 - June 2016
  • Revision and correction of the basionyms of ca. 3500 species
  • Addition of ca. 200 new species
  • Revision and correction of the authorship of ca. 3700 species and ca. 530 genera
  • Addition of distributions for ca. 3700 species
Mollusca - Bivalvia André Sartori & Phillipe Bouchet December 2015 - June 2016
  • Implementation of Volume 2 of Markus Huber's Compendium of Bivalves within WoRMS
  • Revision of ca. valid 450 names
  • Implementation of 623 taxonomic acts (mainly the recognition of new synonyms)
  • Addition of ca. 500 new combinations
Mollusca - Cephalopoda Julian Finn & Philippe Bouchet February 2016 - June 2016
  • Addition and update of all 776 cephalopod species detailed in the FAO Species Catalogues
  • Incorporation of classification as proposed by Strugnell et al. (2013)
Mollusca - Gastropoda, Rissoidae Marien Faber & Philippe Bouchet November 2015 - April 2016
  • Addition of ca. 500 original combinations (basionyms)
  • Addition of ca. 250 valid species
  • Addition of original type figures and references to original publications
Nematoda - Cucullanidae and closely related families Shokoofeh Shamsi December 2015 - May 2016
  • Revision and update of the available information for ca. 60 species
  • Addition of min. 100 new species (either new additions or synonyms)
  • Update of the validity of the species and resolution of the synonymy
  • Completion of data on environment, hosts, GenBank links, images, original descriptions, accession number and location of the type specimen, and other important information
Nematoda - Marine, free-living taxa Dmitri Miljutin December 2015 - June 2016
  • Addition of missing species
  • Revision and addition of valid names, authorships, basionyms, synonyms, type localities, type species and environment
  • Upload of missing PDFs of original descriptions and other taxonomic works
Nematoda - Plectida Oleksandr Holovachov November 2015 - March 2016
  • Revision of the nomenclature of ca. 480 species names
  • Update of the environmental flag of ca. 480 species names
  • Addition of missing original descriptions (ca. 180-200 species), type locality information (ca. 380-400 species), and photographs or videos of type material (ca. 50 species)
  • Addition of ca. 200 valid and ca. 200-400 non-valid species names
Polychaeta - Several families Joao Gil & Geoff Read December 2015 - May 2016
  • Completion of basionyms, original publication references, type localities, type material, environment, depth range, habitat, and etymology for min. 1250 taxa
  • Taxonomic update (addition of missing taxa and authorships, deletion of duplicates), for min. 1250 taxa
  • Addition of ca. 100 new or missing names
Porifera - Brazilian Demospongiae and Hexactinellida

João Luís de Fraga Carraro & Eduardo Hajdu

November 2015 - March 2016
  • Inclusion of ca. 130 first species records for the Brazilian EEZ and Marine Ecoregions
  • Addition and updates of type specimens, secondary records, and images for ca. 400 taxa.
  • Addition of ca. 20 new taxa
Tardigrada Ilaria Giovannini & Roberto Guidetti December 2015 - April 2016
  • Documentation and update of the original species name, type locality, environment, true authorship type material and pictures for ca. 200 species
  • Upload of the PDFs of the original descriptions for ca. 200 species