Group |
Responsible editor(s) |
Duration |
Expected results |
Amphipoda - Lysianassoidea |
Michael Thurston, Tammy Horton |
December 2015 - May 2016 |
- Documentation of the basionym, missing authorships, original description (with PDF), type locality, type species, environment, depth range for deep-sea taxa, and addition of identification resources, for ca. 1042 accepted species
- Confirmation of the deep-sea context for ca. 1042 accepted species
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Amphipoda - Niphargidae |
Cene Fiser, Tammy Horton |
December 2015 - April 2016 |
- Addition of 50-70 species (or revision of their subspecific rank)
- Documentation of the basionym, missing authorships, original description (with PDF), type locality, type species, environment, distributions (with sources), and identification resources, for min. 330 accepted species
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Amphipoda - Non-marine Gammaroidea (excluding Baikalian taxa) |
Tomasz Mamos, Michal Gabrowksi & Tammy Horton |
December 2015 - May 2016 |
- Documentation of the basionym, missing authorities, original description (with PDF), status reference, type locality, type species, environment, habitat, distributions (with sources), and identification resources
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Amphipoda - Non-marine taxa |
Risto Väinölä, Mikhail Daneliya & Tammy Horton |
December 2015 - April 2016 |
- Documentation of the basionym, missing authorships, original description (with PDF), status reference, type locality, type species, environment, habitat, distributions (with sources), and identification resources, for min. 400 names.
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Asteroidea - Southern Ocean taxa |
Quentin Jossart & Bruno Danis |
January 2016 - April 2016 |
- Update of RAMS/WoRMS based on a recent review paper
- Addition of 97 new species
- Digitization and upload of 11 legacy books, containing original descriptions for ca. 70% of the species
- Documentation of basionyms and type localities
- Upload of new high resolution macro images of selected specimens
- Creation of a prototype identification key for the Odontasteridae family (16 species in RAMS)
- Provision of hotlinks to e.g. Barcode of Life and SCAR Antarctic Field Guides
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Hippoidea, Epicaridea, and Rhizocephala |
Christopher Boyko |
November 2015 - April 2016 |
- Completion of type localities for about 1.700 taxa
- Completion of type hosts for about 1.550 taxa
- Addition of PDFs of original descriptions for about 1.700 taxa
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Isopoda - Marine, non-parasitic taxa |
Kelly Merrin & Gary Poore |
December 2015 - June 2016 |
- Completion of the authority and original description source for ca. 1000 names
- Completion of the type localities for about two-thirds of the isopod species
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Isopoda - Oniscidea |
Stefano Taiti |
December 2015 - June 2016 |
- Revision and correction of the basionyms of ca. 3500 species
- Addition of ca. 200 new species
- Revision and correction of the authorship of ca. 3700 species and ca. 530 genera
- Addition of distributions for ca. 3700 species
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Mollusca - Bivalvia |
André Sartori & Phillipe Bouchet |
December 2015 - June 2016 |
- Implementation of Volume 2 of Markus Huber's Compendium of Bivalves within WoRMS
- Revision of ca. valid 450 names
- Implementation of 623 taxonomic acts (mainly the recognition of new synonyms)
- Addition of ca. 500 new combinations
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Mollusca - Cephalopoda |
Julian Finn & Philippe Bouchet |
February 2016 - June 2016 |
- Addition and update of all 776 cephalopod species detailed in the FAO Species Catalogues
- Incorporation of classification as proposed by Strugnell et al. (2013)
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Mollusca - Gastropoda, Rissoidae |
Marien Faber & Philippe Bouchet |
November 2015 - April 2016 |
- Addition of ca. 500 original combinations (basionyms)
- Addition of ca. 250 valid species
- Addition of original type figures and references to original publications
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Nematoda - Cucullanidae and closely related families |
Shokoofeh Shamsi |
December 2015 - May 2016 |
- Revision and update of the available information for ca. 60 species
- Addition of min. 100 new species (either new additions or synonyms)
- Update of the validity of the species and resolution of the synonymy
- Completion of data on environment, hosts, GenBank links, images, original descriptions, accession number and location of the type specimen, and other important information
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Nematoda - Marine, free-living taxa |
Dmitri Miljutin |
December 2015 - June 2016 |
- Addition of missing species
- Revision and addition of valid names, authorships, basionyms, synonyms, type localities, type species and environment
- Upload of missing PDFs of original descriptions and other taxonomic works
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Nematoda - Plectida |
Oleksandr Holovachov |
November 2015 - March 2016 |
- Revision of the nomenclature of ca. 480 species names
- Update of the environmental flag of ca. 480 species names
- Addition of missing original descriptions (ca. 180-200 species), type locality information (ca. 380-400 species), and photographs or videos of type material (ca. 50 species)
- Addition of ca. 200 valid and ca. 200-400 non-valid species names
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Polychaeta - Several families |
Joao Gil & Geoff Read |
December 2015 - May 2016 |
- Completion of basionyms, original publication references, type localities, type material, environment, depth range, habitat, and etymology for min. 1250 taxa
- Taxonomic update (addition of missing taxa and authorships, deletion of duplicates), for min. 1250 taxa
- Addition of ca. 100 new or missing names
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Porifera - Brazilian Demospongiae and Hexactinellida |
João Luís de Fraga Carraro & Eduardo Hajdu
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November 2015 - March 2016 |
- Inclusion of ca. 130 first species records for the Brazilian EEZ and Marine Ecoregions
- Addition and updates of type specimens, secondary records, and images for ca. 400 taxa.
- Addition of ca. 20 new taxa
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Tardigrada |
Ilaria Giovannini & Roberto Guidetti |
December 2015 - April 2016 |
- Documentation and update of the original species name, type locality, environment, true authorship type material and pictures for ca. 200 species
- Upload of the PDFs of the original descriptions for ca. 200 species
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