- 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
Tal como nos anos anteriores, o World Register of Marine Species(WoRMS) publicou novamente a sua lista anual das dez espécies marinhas mais importantes descritas pelos investigadores durante o ano passado, para coincidir com o Dia Mundial de Apreciação do Taxonomista a 19 de Março!
Se não estava a par desta celebração de todo o trabalho que os taxonomistas fazem, pode encontrar mais informações aqui e aqui.
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).
Como foram escolhidas as espécies?
A call for nominations was announced in Dezembro 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 Janeiro 1st and Dezembro 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 a lista das dez primeiras WoRMS de Espécies Marinhas
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.
Em 2018, para celebrar uma década de existência do WoRMS, compilámos uma lista das nossas principais espécies marinhas, tanto para 2017 como para a década anterior, a fim de destacar as fascinantes descobertas das numerosas novas espécies marinhas que são feitas todos os anos ( ver 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
- Dez novas espécies marinhas notáveis de 2021
- Dez novas espécies marinhas notáveis 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 alguns dos nossos favoritos consigam entrar na lista 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.
O trabalho do DMT e muitas actividades relacionadas com o WoRMS-DMT são apoiados pelo LifeWatch Belgium, parte da infra-estrutura europeia LifeWatch da E-Science para a investigação sobre biodiversidade e ecossistemas. O LifeWatch é um laboratório virtual distribuído, que é utilizado para diferentes aspectos da investigação sobre biodiversidade. A espinha dorsal de informação sobre espécies do LifeWatch visa reunir dados taxonómicos e relacionados com espécies e preencher as lacunas do nosso conhecimento. Além disso, dá apoio a peritos taxonómicos, fornecendo-lhes apoio logístico e financeiro para a organização de reuniões e workshops relacionados com a expansão do conteúdo e a melhoria da qualidade das bases de dados taxonómicas.
O WoRMS - como ABC WoRMS - é uma acção aprovada no âmbito da Década dos Oceanos das Nações Unidas.
WoRMS and Ocean Census have a partnership to enhance rapid discovery and identification of marine life.
