Fauna Europaea: Gastrotricha
| Autor: | Loretta Guidi, Jacek Kisielewski, Paolo Grilli, Maria Balsamo, Mary Antonio Donatello Todaro, Paolo Tongiorgi, Jean-Loup d`Hondt, Yde de Jong |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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0106 biological sciences
Fauna Europaea Biodiversity meiofauna check-list QH301-705.5 Bioinformatics Fauna 010607 zoology Biodiversity 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Chaetonotida Systematics Animalia 14. Life underwater Biology (General) Faunistics & Distribution lcsh:QH301-705.5 Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics check-list Invertebrata Taxonomy Data Management Ecology biology Phylum Nomenclature Cephalornis Gastrotrich Macrodasyida biology.organism_classification Incertae sedis Gastrotricha Europe Fauna Europaea Biodiversity Informatics Europe Taxonomic indexing Zoology Biodiversity Taxonomy Gastrotricha fresh waters lcsh:Biology (General) Biodiversity Informatics meiofauna Taxonomic indexing Neogene Catalogues and Checklists Zoology fresh waters Data Paper |
| Zdroj: | Biodiversity Data Journal Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e5800 Biodiversity Data Journal 3 e5800 Biodiversity Data Journal, Vol 3, Pp 1-23 (2015) Pensoft ZENODO DOAJ-Articles Europe PubMed Central |
| ISSN: | 1314-2828 1314-2836 |
| Popis: | Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names (including important synonyms) of all living European land and freshwater animals, their geographical distribution at country level (up to the Urals, excluding the Caucasus region), and some additional information. The Fauna Europaea project covers about 230,000 taxonomic names, including 130,000 accepted species and 14,000 accepted subspecies, which is much more than the originally projected number of 100,000 species. This represents a huge effort by more than 400 contributing specialists throughout Europe and is a unique (standard) reference suitable for many users in science, government, industry, nature conservation and education. Gastrotricha are a meiobenthic phylum composed of 813 species known so far (2 orders, 17 families) of free-living microinvertebrates commonly present and actively moving on and into sediments of aquatic ecosystems, 339 of which live in fresh and brackish waters. The Fauna Europaea database includes 214 species of Chaetonotida (4 families) plus a single species of Macrodasyida incertae sedis. This paper deals with the 224 European freshwater species known so far, 9 of which, all of Chaetonotida, have been described subsequently and will be included in the next database version. Basic information on their biology and ecology are summarized, and a list of selected, main references is given. As a general conclusion the gastrotrich fauna from Europe is the best known compared with that of other continents, but shows some important gaps of knowledge in Eastern and Southern regions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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