- Falkor’s Carnivorous Sponge, Abyssocladia falkor
- The Bifrost Nemertean, Tetranemertes bifrost
- Solwarawarriors vestimentiferan, Alaysia solwarawarriors
- Hannan’s Pygmy Squid, Kodama jujutsu
- The Samoan Nautilus, Nautilus samoaensis
- Prince Albert’s Sea Daisy, Xyloplax princealberti
- Bouchet’s Dorymenia, Dorymenia boucheti
- Fine Line Nudibranch, Halgerda scripta
- Fordyce’s Giant Penguin, Kumimanu fordycei †
- St. George’s Cross Medusa, Santjordia pagesi
Como en años anteriores, el Registro Mundial de Especies Marinas (WoRMS) ha vuelto a publicar su lista anual de las diez especies marinas más descritas por los investigadores durante el año pasado, ¡coincidiendo con el Día Mundial del Agradecimiento a los Taxónomos, el 19 de marzo!
Si desconocía esta celebración de todo el trabajo que realizan los taxónomos, puede encontrar más información aquí y aquí.
Every day in labs, museums, and out on fieldwork, taxonomists are busy collecting, cataloguing, identifying, comparing, describing, and naming species new to science. Over 300 taxonomists globally also contribute their valuable time to keeping the World Register of Marine Species up to date. Today is a chance for us at WoRMS to thank our taxonomic editors for this important task. We celebrate the work of taxonomists now with the WoRMS list of the top-ten marine species described in 2023 as nominated and voted for by taxonomists, journal editors and WoRMS users!
This top-ten list is just a small highlight of about 2,000 fascinating new marine species discovered every year (there were almost 2000 marine species described in 2023 and added to WoRMS, including some 330 fossil species).
¿Cómo se eligieron las especies?
A call for nominations was announced in Diciembre 2023, sent to all editors of WoRMS and editors of major taxonomy journals, and posted openly on the WoRMS website and social media so anyone had the opportunity to nominate their favorite marine species. Nominated species must have been described between Enero 1st and Diciembre 31st, 2023, and have come from the marine environment (including fossil taxa). A small committee of volunteers (including both taxonomists and data managers) was brought together to decide upon the final candidates. The list is in no hierarchical order.
The final decisions reflect the immense diversity of taxonomic groups in the marine environment (including crustaceans, corals, sponges, jellies and worms) and highlight some of the challenges facing the marine environment today. The final candidates also feature some particularly astonishing marine creatures, notable for their interest to both science and the public.
Each of these marine species has a story. This year the chosen species cover the weird, the bewildering and the astonishing! We feature, amongst others, a beautifully colored nemertean, a carnivorous sponge, and a giant extinct penguin.
Sobre la lista de las diez mejores especies marinas del WoRMS
After 250 years of describing, naming and cataloguing the species we share our planet with, we are still some way off from achieving a complete census. However, we do know that at least 245,000 marine species have been described because their names are managed in WoRMS by more than 300 scientists located all over the world.
En 2018, para celebrar una década de existencia de WoRMS, recopilamos una lista de nuestras principales especies marinas, tanto de 2017 como de la década anterior, con el fin de destacar los fascinantes descubrimientos de las numerosas especies marinas nuevas que se realizan cada año ( véase http://www.lifewatch.be/en/2018.04.23-WoRMS-LifeWatch-press-release).
We decided to continue this process every year as a celebration of the work that taxonomists do and of the fascinating marine species that are discovered each year. Our previous lists of the top-ten marine species described for the decade 2007–2017, for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 can be found here:
- Ten remarkable new marine species from 2007-2017
- Ten remarkable new marine species from 2017
- Ten remarkable new marine species from 2018
- Ten remarkable new marine species from 2019
- Ten remarkable new marine species from 2020
- Diez nuevas especies marinas destacadas a partir de 2021
- Diez nuevas especies marinas destacadas a partir de 2022
Between 2008 and 2018, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) compiled an annual list of the ‘Top Ten Species’ described from ALL habitats and taxa. The oceans cover over 70% of the surface of our planet, and yet they still include the least explored regions. Although the ESF list often contained one or two marine species, we decided to pay homage to the ‘largest habitat on earth’ by producing our own list of the top marine species.
Esperamos que algunos de nuestros favoritos entren en la lista mundial.
The WoRMS Top Ten Marine Species 2023 would not have been possible without the collaboration between the WoRMS Data Management Team (DMT), the WoRMS Top Ten Decision Committee, the WoRMS Steering Committee (SC) and voluntary contributions by many of the WoRMS editors.
El trabajo del DMT y muchas de las actividades relacionadas con el WoRMS-DMT cuentan con el apoyo de LifeWatch Belgium, que forma parte de la Infraestructura Europea LifeWatch para la Investigación de la Biodiversidad y los Ecosistemas de E-Science. LifeWatch es un laboratorio virtual distribuido, que se utiliza para diferentes aspectos de la investigación de la biodiversidad. La columna vertebral de información sobre especies de LifeWatch pretende reunir datos taxonómicos y relacionados con las especies y colmar las lagunas de nuestro conocimiento. Además, presta apoyo a los expertos taxonómicos proporcionándoles ayuda logística y financiera para la organización de reuniones y talleres relacionados con la ampliación del contenido y la mejora de la calidad de las bases de datos taxonómicas.
WoRMS - como ABC WoRMS - es una acción respaldada por la Década Oceánica de la ONU.
WoRMS and Ocean Census have a partnership to enhance rapid discovery and identification of marine life.
