Italian rotifer records

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 12,015 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Ferrari V, Gualdi A, Bertani I, Fontaneto D, Kamburska L, Karimullah K, Marrone F, Obertegger U, Rossetti G, Tiberti R, Cancellario T (2023). Italian rotifer records. Version 1.12. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque. Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/resource?r=italian_rotifer_records&v=1.12

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 8680014a-95df-462c-ad28-6c3ef15b42b6.  Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Checklist; Italy; Occurrence; Rotifers

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Sites are distributed along the Italian peninsula. The column "stateProvance" reports Italian administrative regions for each record.

Taxonomic Coverage

The dataset covers only organisms of the Phylum Rotifera in its traditional meaning, with the exclusion of Acanthocephala (Fontaneto & De Smet, 2015). Data from subspecies to species, genus, and family rank were included in the dataset, whereas records mentioning only higher ranks, e.g. Ploima, Bdelloidea, Monogononta, and Rotifera were excluded.
A total of 9,604 records belong to 493 taxa at valid species level, and subspecies level, 668 records belong to 18 species groups, 1674 records belong to 53 taxa at genus level, and 69 records belong to 6 families. Of the 11,347 records belonging to valid names, 674 are Bdelloidea, 70 are Collothecacea, 1016 are Flosculariaceae, 9586 are Ploima, and just 1 record of Seisonacea.
Taxon specialists: Isabella Bertani, Diego Fontaneto, Ulrike Obertegger, Giampaolo Rossetti.

Temporal Coverage

Sampling Methods

The information on occurrence records of rotifer species at each site comes from published scientific papers, as well as grey literature such as theses and notes in technical reports from local authorities.
All relevant literature was obtained first by searching through search engines (Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science) with combinations of keywords to identify the target organisms, such as rotifer* or rotatoria or monogonont* or bdelloid* or seison*, and geographic targets, such as ital* or the names of all Italian regions.
Additional references were searched through the grey literature with online searches outside of the three academic databases. All the literature found was screened for records, and the additional references cited in them were searched and screened too.

Method step description:

1. Only published records are included in the data set. A search through the literature was performed till 15th October 2022. All names reported in the published literature were included and reported in the column ‘originalName’. Given the continuous changes in biological nomenclature (Thomson et al., 2018), all scientific names published before the year 2000 were updated to the currently accepted nomenclature, following the Rotifer List of Available Names, LAN (Segers et al., 2012). In contrast, no update was performed for all scientific names published after the year 2000, following the nomenclature of the Rotifer World Catalog (Jersabek & Leitner, 2013). All valid names were updated in the column ‘acceptedName’ for taxa at species, genus, and family level. All species inquirenda were reported as such and not included in the records uploaded to GBIF. The rotifer LAN stabilised nomenclature by performing a revision of names with synonyms and delimitation of genera. All names were also checked against the backbone of GBIF. The dataset in GBIF uses only the updated nomenclature, with no mention of the original names reported in the published literature.

Bibliographic Citations

1. Braioni MG, Ricci C, 1995 - Rotifera. In: Minelli A., S. Ruffo & S. La Posta (eds), Checklist delle specie della fauna italiana, 8. Calderini, Bologna: 1-11.
2. Fontaneto D, Bertani I, Cancellario T, Rossetti G, Obertegger U, 2022. The new checklist of the Italian Fauna: Rotifera. Biogeographia – The Journal of Integrative Biogeography, 37(1), ucl004. https://doi.org/10.21426/B637156807
3. Wieczorek J, Bloom D, Guralnick R, Blum S, Döring M, Giovanni R, Robertson T, Vieglais D, 2012. Darwin Core: an evolving community-developed biodiversity data standard. PloS one, 7(1), e29715. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029715
4. Fontaneto D, De Smet WH, 2015. Rotifera, Chapter 4. In: Schmidt-Rhaesa A. (ed.), Handbook of Zoology, Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia and Gnathifera. Volume 3, Gastrotricha and Gnathifera. De Gruyter GmbH, Berlin, pp. 217-300.
5. Segers H, De Smet WH, Fischer C, Fontaneto D, Michaloudi E, Wallace RL, Jersabek CD, 2012. Towards a list of available names in zoology, partim Phylum Rotifera. Zootaxa, 3179(1), 61-68. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3179.1.3
6. Jersabek CD, Leitner MF, 2013. The rotifer world catalogue. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.rotifera.hausdernatur.at/
7. European Environmental Agency, 2017. Biogeographical regions in Europe. European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity (ETC/BD). 3431629fe50049a7b995d125aad9c71d
8. Thomson SA, Pyle RL, Ahyong ST, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Ammirati J, Araya JF, ... & Zhou H-Z, 2018. Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation. PLoS Biology, 16(3), e2005075. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2005075

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