- 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
世界海洋生物種登録（WoRMS）は、3月19日の世界分類学者感謝デーに合わせ、例年通り、過去1年間に研究者によって記載された海洋生物種のトップ10を発表しました！
もしあなたが、分類学者のすべての仕事を祝うこの祭典をご存知なかったのなら、こちらと こちらで詳細をご覧ください。
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).
種はどのように選ばれたのですか？
A call for nominations was announced in 12月 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 一月 1st and 12月 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.
WoRMS海洋生物種トップ10リストについて
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.
2018年、WoRMSの設立10年を記念して、毎年数多くの新種の海洋生物が発見されている魅力にスポットを当てるため、2017年と過去10年間のトップ海洋生物のリストを作成しました（http://www.lifewatch.be/en/2018.04.23-WoRMS-LifeWatch-press-release 参照）。
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
- 2021年からの注目すべき10の新海洋生物
- 2022年、注目の海洋新種10種
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.
私たちのお気に入りが、世界のリストに載ることを期待しています！
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.
DMTの活動と多くのWoRMS-DMT関連の活動は、E-Science European LifeWatch Infrastructure for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Researchの一部であるLifeWatch Belgiumによってサポートされています。LifeWatchは分散型バーチャルラボラトリーで、生物多様性研究の様々な側面で利用されています。LifeWatchの種情報バックボーンは、分類学的および種関連のデータを集め、知識のギャップを埋めることを目的としています。さらに、分類学データベースのコンテンツ拡張や品質向上に関連する会議やワークショップの開催を支援することで、分類学専門家をサポートします。
WoRMS -ABC WoRMSとして- は、「国連海洋の10年」の下で承認された行動である。
WoRMS and Ocean Census have a partnership to enhance rapid discovery and identification of marine life.
