- 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
与往年一样，世界海洋物种登记册（WoRMS）再次公布了过去一年中研究人员描述的十大海洋物种的年度名单，以配合3月19日世界分类学家感谢日的到来
如果你不知道这次对分类学家所做的所有工作的庆祝活动，你可以在这里和这里找到更多。
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).
这些物种是如何选择的？
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.
关于WoRMS的十大海洋物种名单
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，为庆祝WoRMS成立十年，我们编制了一份2017年和前十年的最佳海洋物种清单，以突出每年众多海洋新物种的迷人发现（见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
- 2021年的十大杰出海洋新物种
- 来自2022年的十个引人注目的海洋新物种
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.
我们希望我们的一些最爱能够进入全球名单!
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的工作和许多与WoRMS-DMT相关的活动得到了比利时LifeWatch的支持，LifeWatch是欧洲生物多样性和生态系统研究的E-Science LifeWatch基础设施的一部分。LifeWatch是一个分布式的虚拟实验室，它被用于生物多样性研究的不同方面。LifeWatch的物种信息主干旨在汇集分类学和物种相关的数据，填补我们的知识空白。此外，它还为分类学专家提供支持，为他们组织与扩大分类学数据库内容和提高其质量有关的会议和研讨会提供后勤和财政支持。
窝窝团--作为ABC窝窝团--是联合国海洋十年的一个认可行动。
WoRMS and Ocean Census have a partnership to enhance rapid discovery and identification of marine life.
