| Abstract | The potential of subterranean environments as models to address major evolutionary and ecological questions has been highlighted in the literature. They represent partially isolated, discrete units offering several replicates of the same evolutionary processes. Species occurrence data of these environments is abundant, although sparse in the literature or gathered in databases established according to regional, taxonomical, or ecological criteria. We here present a newly assembled dataset consisting of records of aquatic animals in all types of caves or wells from all over the world. Literature sources were gathered from Google Scholar by independently searching for each metazoan phylum/arthropod order, as well as the key words "cave", "groundwater", "well", or "stygobite", in English, Galician, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalonian, French, Italian, Hungarian, Greek, German, Polish, Russian, and Serbo-Croatian. The relevance of each source was confirmed after checking the title and the abstract. For each selected source, we examined its reference list in order to identify studies that were not published in journals indexed in the databases we searched. From the 6852 selected references, we manually extracted all records that concerned either 1. occurrence of a species in a given geographical area or 2. occurrence of any taxon in a particular cave or well. Records were classified as primary or secondary, depending on whether they provided new information or referred to already publish records, allowing us to identify redundant information in posterior analyses. Information for each access point was organized in as a gazetteer, including synonym names, geographical, ecological, and geological information. Following this strategy, we have obtained 48,800 records (32,769, primary) from 1957 references checked so far. Most records are amongst fish and crustaceans. In contrast, few data exist for other groups that are comparatively diverse outside caves, such as Nematoda. Relevant information will be included in World Register of Marine Cave Species (Fig. 1) |
| Authors | Martinez A, Anicic N, Calvaruso S, Sanchez N, Puppieni L, Sforzi T, Zaupa S, Alvarez F, Brankovits D, G?siorowski L, Gerovasileiou V, Gonzalez B, Humphreys W, Iliffe T, Worsaae K, Bailly N, Fontaneto D |
| Text | 399462 2018 10.3897/aca.1.e29514 Subterranean environments A new insight into the Stygofauna Mundi assembling a global dataset for aquatic fauna in subterranean environments Martinez A, Anicic N, Calvaruso S, Sanchez N, Puppieni L, Sforzi T, Zaupa S, Alvarez F, Brankovits D, G siorowski L, Gerovasileiou V, Gonzalez B, Humphreys W, Iliffe T, Worsaae K, Bailly N, Fontaneto D Institute of Ecosystem Study, Verbania Pallanza, Italy § Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Coleccion Nacional de Crustaceos, Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City D.F, Mexico ¶ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States of America # Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway ¤ Hellenic Center for Marine Recearch HCMR , Heraklion, Greece « Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, United States of America » Western Australian Museum, Perth, Australia Western Australian Museum, Welshpool WA 6106, Australia Texas A M University, Galveston, TX, United States of America ¦ Marine Biology Section, University of Copenhagen, Copehangen, Denmark WorldFish Center, Los Baños, Philippines Published version XXIV International Conference on Subterranean Biology Aveiro, Portogallo 20 24 agosto 2018 Internazionale Contributo The potential of subterranean environments as models to address major evolutionary and ecological questions has been highlighted in the literature. They represent partially isolated, discrete units offering several replicates of the same evolutionary processes. Species occurrence data of these environments is abundant, although sparse in the literature or gathered in databases established according to regional, taxonomical, or ecological criteria. We here present a newly assembled dataset consisting of records of aquatic animals in all types of caves or wells from all over the world. Literature sources were gathered from Google Scholar by independently searching for each metazoan phylum/arthropod order, as well as the key words cave , groundwater , well , or stygobite , in English, Galician, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalonian, French, Italian, Hungarian, Greek, German, Polish, Russian, and Serbo Croatian. The relevance of each source was confirmed after checking the title and the abstract. For each selected source, we examined its reference list in order to identify studies that were not published in journals indexed in the databases we searched. From the 6852 selected references, we manually extracted all records that concerned either 1. occurrence of a species in a given geographical area or 2. occurrence of any taxon in a particular cave or well. Records were classified as primary or secondary, depending on whether they provided new information or referred to already publish records, allowing us to identify redundant information in posterior analyses. Information for each access point was organized in as a gazetteer, including synonym names, geographical, ecological, and geological information. Following this strategy, we have obtained 48,800 records 32,769, primary from 1957 references checked so far. Most records are amongst fish and crustaceans. In contrast, few data exist for other groups that are comparatively diverse outside caves, such as Nematoda. Relevant information will be included in World Register of Marine Cave Species Fig. 1 Abstract 2018_ARPHA_Cpnf_Abst_29514.pdf Abstract in atti di convegno laura.puppieni PUPPIENI LAURA ZAUPA SILVIA SFORZI TOMMASO alejandro.martinezgarcia MARTINEZ GARCIA ALEJANDRO diego.fontaneto FONTANETO DIEGO |
