- 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
Seperti tahun-tahun sebelumnya, World Register of Marine Species(WoRMS) kembali merilis daftar tahunan sepuluh spesies laut teratas yang dideskripsikan oleh para peneliti selama setahun terakhir, bertepatan dengan Hari Apresiasi Taksonom Dunia pada 19 Maret!
Jika Anda tidak mengetahui tentang perayaan semua pekerjaan yang dilakukan oleh para taksonom, Anda dapat menemukan lebih banyak lagi di sini dan di sini.
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).
Bagaimana spesies itu dipilih?
A call for nominations was announced in Desember 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 Januari 1st and Desember 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.
Tentang daftar sepuluh besar Spesies Laut 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.
Pada tahun 2018, untuk merayakan satu dekade keberadaan WoRMS, kami menyusun daftar spesies laut teratas kami, baik untuk tahun 2017 maupun dekade sebelumnya untuk menyoroti penemuan-penemuan menarik dari berbagai spesies laut baru yang dibuat setiap tahun (lihat 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
- Sepuluh spesies laut baru yang luar biasa dari tahun 2021
- Sepuluh spesies laut baru yang luar biasa dari tahun 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.
Kami berharap beberapa favorit kami akan masuk ke dalam daftar global!
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.
Pekerjaan DMT dan banyak kegiatan terkait WoRMS-DMT didukung oleh LifeWatch Belgia, bagian dari E-Science European LifeWatch Infrastructure untuk Penelitian Keanekaragaman Hayati dan Ekosistem. LifeWatch adalah laboratorium virtual terdistribusi, yang digunakan untuk berbagai aspek penelitian keanekaragaman hayati. Tulang Punggung Informasi Spesies dari LifeWatch bertujuan untuk menyatukan data taksonomi dan data terkait spesies serta mengisi kesenjangan dalam pengetahuan kita. Selain itu, memberikan dukungan kepada para ahli taksonomi dengan menyediakan dukungan logistik dan finansial untuk penyelenggaraan pertemuan dan lokakarya yang berkaitan dengan perluasan konten dan peningkatan kualitas basis data taksonomi.
WoRMS - sebagai ABC WoRMS - merupakan aksi yang didukung di bawah Dekade Kelautan PBB.
WoRMS and Ocean Census have a partnership to enhance rapid discovery and identification of marine life.
