Biodiversity Data JournalPub Date : 2025-02-28eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e136243
Arianna Giannini, Massimo Appolloni, Luigi Romani, Marco Oliverio
{"title":"Mobilising marine biodiversity data: a new malacological dataset of Italian records (Mollusca).","authors":"Arianna Giannini, Massimo Appolloni, Luigi Romani, Marco Oliverio","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.12.e136243","DOIUrl":"10.3897/BDJ.12.e136243","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The location and palaeoceanographic history of the Mediterranean Sea make it a biodiversity hotspot, prompting extensive studies in this region. However, despite the marine biodiversity of this area being apparently widely studied, a large amount of distributional data for Mediterranean taxa is still unpublished or scattered in various sources and formats, causing severe limitations to their potential reuse. This emerges as a particularly thorny issue for highly biodiverse and neglected taxa, such as invertebrates. The mobilisation of these frozen data through a process of standardisation and georeferencing could potentially support biodiversity research and conservation. The aim of this work is to provide a standardised pipeline to integrate these dispersed data, focusing on the Italian waters of the Mediterranean Sea and using molluscs as target taxa. Data were gathered from two main sources: published literature and Natural History Collections. The harmonisation process involved three key steps: 1) terminology and structure standardisation; 2) taxonomy updating and 3) georeferencing. Our efforts yielded over 44000 standardised records of mollusc species from Italian seawaters. These records encompassed primary biodiversity data from newly-digitised specimens owned by 11 different institutions and private collectors, as well as secondary biodiversity data extracted from 311 published studies.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>This work is the first attempt to mobilise the available distributional information of Italian marine mollusc species from Natural History Collections and literature, converting the retrieved data into point-occurrence records through standard protocols, thus creating a FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) dataset collating these records from Italian marine sectors.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"13 ","pages":"e136243"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11889433/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143588339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biodiversity Data JournalPub Date : 2025-02-28eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e141577
Denise Pinheiro da Costa, Cecília Sérgio
{"title":"Atlantic oceanic islands and archipelagos: Physical structures, plant diversity, and affinities of the bryofloras.","authors":"Denise Pinheiro da Costa, Cecília Sérgio","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e141577","DOIUrl":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e141577","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigated the species richness, endemism, and similarities of the bryofloras on ten islands and archipelagos in the Atlantic Ocean. We address the following questions: 1) How many bryophyte taxa are there on each island and archipelago? 2) Do mosses and liverworts share similar patterns of diversity? 3) What are their taxonomic distribution patterns? 4) How many endemic taxa are found on the islands? 5) Is there a high degree of similarity amost these bryofloras? We encountered 1,498 taxa, 408 genera, and 204 families, with the seven families representing 35% of all species. Over 14% of the bryophytes are African elements, 8% have global distributions, ca. 3% are Macaronesia elements, 13% are endemic, and 62% with other distributions. We present a checklist of 1,498 bryophyte taxa, of which 201 are endemic (13%). Bryophyte richness and diversity differ significantly amongst the ten islands and archipelagos, and their low similarities illustrate their high degrees of heterogeneity.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"13 ","pages":"e141577"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11889432/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143588291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biodiversity Data JournalPub Date : 2025-02-25eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e138625
Sebastiano Zanini, Matteo Dainese, Timo Kopf, Lisa Obwegs, Matteo Anderle, Georg Leitinger, Ulrike Tappeiner
{"title":"New distribution records of wild bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in South Tyrol (Italy): expanding the wild bee database.","authors":"Sebastiano Zanini, Matteo Dainese, Timo Kopf, Lisa Obwegs, Matteo Anderle, Georg Leitinger, Ulrike Tappeiner","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e138625","DOIUrl":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e138625","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Throughout South Tyrol, in northern Italy, there is a data deficiency relating to wild bee species pool. Here, we present significant findings from the collection of 3,313 wild bees gathered over two separate studies conducted in consecutive years. Our research focused on the impact of landscape heterogeneity, temperature and land-use change on wild bee communities and their pollination services in an agricultural and mountainous landscape. This article provides a detailed account of the 150 identified wild bee species collected using coloured pan traps. We report habitat type, occurrence data, threat status, sociality, nesting strategy and diet breadth. In Italian regions where information on wild bee distribution is lacking or outdated, sharing data is crucial for developing conservation policies.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>The compiled species list strengthens regional and national wild bee database by providing new distribution data for extinction-threatened species, such as <i>Dufoureadentiventris</i> (Nylander, 1848), <i>Dufoureainermis</i> (Nylander, 1848), <i>Lasioglossumbrevicorne</i> (Schenck, 1870), <i>Lasioglossumlaevigatum</i> (Kirby, 1802), <i>Lasioglossummonstrificum</i> (Morawitz, 1891), <i>Nomadamutica</i> Morawitz, 1872 and <i>Nomadavillosa</i> Thomson, 1870. Additionally, we present recent findings of species that are valuable for understanding range expansions, recording species previously unreported in South Tyrol and updating historical data for the region.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"13 ","pages":"e138625"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11880818/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143569127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biodiversity Data JournalPub Date : 2025-02-24eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e144992
Ruslan A Saifutdinov, Maxim I Degtyarev, Daniil I Korobushkin, Svetlana M Artemieva, Philipp S Byzov, Margarita A Danilova, Alla A Ditts, Ksenia A Ermokhina, Petr G Garibian, Anastasia Yu Gorbunova, Polina A Guseva, Evgeniy I Karlik, Tatiana Yu Kondratieva, Dmitri A Kupriyanov, Iurii M Lebedev, Natalia V Lebedeva, Pavel A Nazarov, Alisa A Neplyukhina, Elizaveta A Noskova, Roman R Obolensky, Alexey A Panchenkov, Anna V Popova, Nina A Pronina, Joel Rüthi, Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, Svetlana V Shakhab, Andrey S Zaitsev, Vitalii A Zemlianskii, Elena Yu Zvychaynaya, Konstantin B Gongalsky
{"title":"Taxonomic diversity and abundance of enchytraeids (Annelida, Clitellata, Enchytraeida) in the Northern Palaearctic. 2. European Russia.","authors":"Ruslan A Saifutdinov, Maxim I Degtyarev, Daniil I Korobushkin, Svetlana M Artemieva, Philipp S Byzov, Margarita A Danilova, Alla A Ditts, Ksenia A Ermokhina, Petr G Garibian, Anastasia Yu Gorbunova, Polina A Guseva, Evgeniy I Karlik, Tatiana Yu Kondratieva, Dmitri A Kupriyanov, Iurii M Lebedev, Natalia V Lebedeva, Pavel A Nazarov, Alisa A Neplyukhina, Elizaveta A Noskova, Roman R Obolensky, Alexey A Panchenkov, Anna V Popova, Nina A Pronina, Joel Rüthi, Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, Svetlana V Shakhab, Andrey S Zaitsev, Vitalii A Zemlianskii, Elena Yu Zvychaynaya, Konstantin B Gongalsky","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e144992","DOIUrl":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e144992","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Enchytraeids, commonly known as potworms, are small oligochaetes found worldwide in various terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems. Despite their crucial role in ecosystem functioning, the diversity and abundance of Enchytraeidae are seldom studied due to the labour-intensive process of species identification. This study aims to address this gap and expand knowledge on the distribution and abundance of enchytraeids within the Northern Palaearctic Region. The provided dataset represents the latest and most comprehensive field sampling of enchytraeid communities within the European part of Russia within the Northern Palaearctic. It consists exclusively of an original set of soil samples systematically collected across the region from 2019 to 2023, without any previously published data included.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>The dataset includes occurrences from 204 georeferenced sites, encompassing 73 species from 17 genera, totalling 61,254 records, with 1,419 records having the \"present'' occurrence status. This comprehensive, species-specific dataset (Darwin Core Archive - DwC-A) provides insights into the distribution and abundance of terrestrial enchytraeids across a wide geographic area, covering the eastern sector of the East European Plain and the North Caucasus Region within the Northern Palaearctic. Compiled from field sampling campaigns, this dataset is essential for exploring and understanding local and regional enchytraeid diversity over time and space. It also serves as a valuable resource for monitoring and conserving soil biodiversity in the studied region.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"13 ","pages":"e144992"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11876978/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143558898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biodiversity Data JournalPub Date : 2025-02-24eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e144915
Hugo Renato M G Calado, António O Soares, Ruben Heleno, Paulo A V Borges
{"title":"Arthropod communities of insular (São Miguel Island, Azores) and mainland (Portugal) coastal grasslands.","authors":"Hugo Renato M G Calado, António O Soares, Ruben Heleno, Paulo A V Borges","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e144915","DOIUrl":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e144915","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The data presented here is part of a doctoral project aimed at characterising and comparing arthropod diversity across biotic communities in coastal ecosystems. The present work provides an inventory of the arthropods recorded in two coastal grasslands ecosystems: the Portugal mainland and the Azores. Sampling was conducted on São Miguel Island (Azores Archipelago) as well as in the Sesimbra and Sines regions (Setúbal District, mainland Portugal). Thirty-one plots were set and visited four times, in spring and summer of 2022.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>The specimens collected were sorted and catalogued into a total of 534 arthropod species and morphospecies. In total, 67 species were common to both ecosystems. A total of 13,515 specimens were counted in the two coastal grasslands. We registered three new records for the Azores (in São Miguel Island), all being exotic: <i>Aritranisdirector</i> (Thumberg, 1822) (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), <i>Draeculacephalabradleyi</i>, Van Duzee, 1915 (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae) and <i>Isodontia</i> sp. Patton, 1880 (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). This publication demonstrates the importance of coastal grasslands as reservoirs for some potentially invasive arthropod species.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"13 ","pages":"e144915"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11876977/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143558896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biodiversity Data JournalPub Date : 2025-02-21eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e141997
Martina Weiss, Florian Leese
{"title":"Population genetic data (COI, ddRAD) of <i>Sialislutaria</i> (Insecta, Megaloptera) from the Emscher catchment (Germany).","authors":"Martina Weiss, Florian Leese","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e141997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e141997","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In urban river systems, fragmentation of habitats and in-stream dispersal barriers play a major role in shaping the population genetic structure of freshwater macroinvertebrate species. In small, fragmented populations, effects of genetic drift and inbreeding are enhanced, which can lead to increased population differentiation and genetic diversity loss. One formerly strongly degraded and fragmented stream system in a highly urbanised area is the Emscher catchment in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Major restoration efforts have led to an improvement of water and habitat quality over the past 20 years also in the formerly polluted tributaries, for example, the Boye catchment. However, the analysis of the population structure of two different amphipod and isopod species has revealed that some populations are still strongly isolated, indicating persisting gene flow barriers. In contrast, the effects are expected to be less pronounced in merolimnic species, which have an adult winged life stage, such as the alderfly <i>Sialislutaria</i> (Linnaeus, 1758) . However, this species was much less abundant in the Boye catchment and not found in adjacent catchments (only 9 of 41 sampling sites), reducing the power of possible analyses.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>As no population genetic studies of <i>S.lutaria</i> have to our knowledge been published so far and genetic resources are generally scarce for this species, we generated and present here population genetic data for 70 <i>S.lutaria</i> specimens for the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) gene and, more importantly, high resolution genomic single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data for 71 specimens, generated with double-digest restriction site-associated sequencing (ddRAD-seq). These data can be valuable for further studies, analysing the population genetic structure, dispersal pathways and potential gene flow barriers for <i>S.lutaria</i> on a larger geographic scale. Additional to presenting the data, we also give first insights in the population structure on a small geographic scale (area of approx. 15 km<sup>2</sup>). While the population differentiation was generally low, as expected on this small scale, we still found that gene flow was not equally strong between all populations, but that one population played a central role as a source and sink population, which cannot only be explained by the distance between populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"13 ","pages":"e141997"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11871517/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143544335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biodiversity Data JournalPub Date : 2025-02-20eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e144929
Donguk Kim, Sangeun Hyun, Kwang Shik Choi
{"title":"First report of an intersex individual of the click beetle <i>Pectocerafortunei</i> (Elateridae) and additional cases of gynandromorphism in Coleoptera (Lucanidae, Scarabaeidae).","authors":"Donguk Kim, Sangeun Hyun, Kwang Shik Choi","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e144929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e144929","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The occurrence of individuals exhibiting both male and female phenotypes is a rare phenomenon observed across various insect orders.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>This study documents the first case of an intersex individual of <i>Pectocerafortunei</i> Candèze, 1873, from the Korean Peninsula, including behavioural findings. This is the first report of such a phenomenon in the family Elateridae. Two cases of gynandromorphism are also described: one in <i>Dorcustitanuscastanicolor</i> (Motschulsky, 1861) (Lucanidae) and the other in <i>Trypoxylusdichotomusseptentrionalis</i> (Kôno, 1931) (Scarabaeidae). The former is a new record for this subspecies. An updated list of intersex and gynandromorphic beetles is also provided.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"13 ","pages":"e144929"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11868802/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143544315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biodiversity Data JournalPub Date : 2025-02-19eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e142838
Jiang Zhu, Cheng-Bin Wang, Ye Zhen
{"title":"<i>Trachyphloeosomarutiani</i> sp. nov., a new species from Guangdong, China (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae).","authors":"Jiang Zhu, Cheng-Bin Wang, Ye Zhen","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e142838","DOIUrl":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e142838","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>From August to September 2024, we led a team of Guangzhou No.5 Binjiang Junior High School students to study the community structure of leaf litter beetles in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, southern China, to prepare for the Youth Innovation Competition hosted by the Guangzhou Education Bureau. In the study, 479 specimens were collected in total, identified as 73 species in 14 families. Amongst all the specimens, some are considered new species, one of which is described here.The genus <i>Trachyphloeosoma</i> Wollaston, 1869 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae, Trachyphloeini) includes six known species occurring in China and the genus is recorded in Guangdong Province for the first time.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>A new weevil, <i>Trachyphloeosomarutiani</i> sp. nov. (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae), is described from Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China. Important morphological characters of the new species are illustrated by colour plates.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"13 ","pages":"e142838"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11865915/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143525273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biodiversity Data JournalPub Date : 2025-02-18eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e139388
Yukyung Kim, Jina Park, Ui Wook Hwang, Joong-Ki Park
{"title":"Taxonomic review of Korean <i>Siphonaria</i> species (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Siphonariidae).","authors":"Yukyung Kim, Jina Park, Ui Wook Hwang, Joong-Ki Park","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e139388","DOIUrl":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e139388","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Many molluscan species exhibit a high degree of shell morphological plasticity in their shape (including sculptures), size and colour patterns, which can vary significantly depending on environmental conditions. These shell morphological variations make it challenging to differentiate species, based on morphology alone, often resulting in various taxonomic errors, such as misidentifications, overlooking cryptic species diversity or a plethora of nominal species. The genus <i>Siphonaria</i> constitutes a significant component of the macrobenthic invertebrate fauna in intertidal habitats across temperate to tropical regions. Given the limited attention to shell variation in previous taxonomic studies on the Korean <i>Siphonaria</i> species, the extensive range of ecophenotypic shell variations documented in this group raises questions about the taxonomic validity of previously reported <i>Siphonaria</i> species in Korea.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>The present study provides a comprehensive taxonomic review of Korean <i>Siphonaria</i> species using a combination of shell morphology, radula structure and phylogenetic analysis of the mtDNA <i>cox1</i> sequences. This integrative analysis confirmed the validity of <i>S.acmaeoides</i>, <i>S.japonica</i> and <i>S.sirius</i> in Korea, highlighting differences in shell and siphonal groove morphology amongst these species. Detailed descriptions of shell and radula characteristics, along with mtDNA <i>cox1</i> sequences as DNA barcodes, are also provided, which are very useful for the accurate identification of <i>Siphonaria</i> species. Unlike these three <i>Siphonaria</i> species, the taxonomic validity of the four other species (<i>S.coreensis</i>, <i>S.javanica</i>, <i>S.laciniosa</i> and <i>S.rucuana</i>) previously reported from Korean waters is questionable, given their documented geographic distribution ranges and the potential misidentification of shell variants in Korean malacofaunal studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"13 ","pages":"e139388"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11862827/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143517599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biodiversity Data JournalPub Date : 2025-02-18eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e137744
Leah A Bergman, Javier Montenegro, Charlotte A Seid, Tiffany S Bachtel, Frazer Mann, Erik V Thuesen, Dhugal J Lindsay, Jeffrey C Drazen
{"title":"Checklist of ichthyoplankton of NORI-D polymetallic nodule exploration claim (eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone) during winter 2021.","authors":"Leah A Bergman, Javier Montenegro, Charlotte A Seid, Tiffany S Bachtel, Frazer Mann, Erik V Thuesen, Dhugal J Lindsay, Jeffrey C Drazen","doi":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e137744","DOIUrl":"10.3897/BDJ.13.e137744","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>There been increasing interest in polymetallic nodule mining within the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ). Polymetallic nodule mining within NORI-D will release a sediment plume within the water column and a previous mining collector test within the Nauru Ocean Resources Inc. (NORI-D) contract area released surface pollution from mining tailings. The mid-water plume, as well as accidental surface pollution, indicate that polymetallic nodule mining could impact surface plankton. Although the ichthyoplankton within the eastern tropical Pacific have been well-studied, recent data from within polymetallic nodule mining licence areas is lacking. Environmental Expedition C5e conducted an environmental baseline assessment of both pelagic and benthic fauna within the NORI-D region of the CCZ, which included the opportunistic collection of ichthyoplankton.</p><p><strong>New information: </strong>Ichthyoplankton were collected within NORI-D from November-December 2021 using two plankton nets and a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV). Here, we present a checklist of ichthyoplankton within the NORI-D licence area during this winter campaign. Eighteen samples were collected and identified through morphology, with a limited number identified through genetic sequencing. Specimens were from five orders, including Argentiniformes, Stomiiformes, Myctophiformes, Beloniformes and Scombriformes. This checklist will aid contractors and scientists conducting work within the CCZ to examine how wastewater discharge from polymetallic nodule mining could impact fish reproduction and ichthyoplankton survival.</p>","PeriodicalId":55994,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Data Journal","volume":"13 ","pages":"e137744"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11862899/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143517596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}