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Placing barcodes with precision against the Catalogue of Life

Placing barcodes with precision against the Catalogue of Life. Frank Bisby Executive Director: Species 2000 Species 2000 Secretariat University of Reading, UK www.sp2000.org. Introduce the Catalogue of Life Illustrate progress in giving full taxonomic precision and integrity

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Placing barcodes with precision against the Catalogue of Life

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  1. Placing barcodes with precision against the Catalogue of Life Frank Bisby Executive Director: Species 2000Species 2000 Secretariat University of Reading, UK www.sp2000.org

  2. Introduce the Catalogue of Life • Illustrate progress in giving full taxonomic precision and integrity • – and ask whether these same issues impact on the collation of barcodes for identification purposes?

  3. Catalogue of Life on-line service and CD-ROM Dynamic Checklist & Web-service Array of source databases for different higher taxa Annual Checklist DB on CD-ROM DB on the Web

  4. CoL Management Classification ChiloBase Classification

  5. CoL Management Classification SysMyr Classification

  6. Partners and contributors to the Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life 1. Taxonomic institutions world-widee.g. MNHN Paris; NIES, Tsukuba, Japan; Zoological Inst., St. Petersburg Russia; RBG Sydney, Australia; Missouri Botanical Garden, USA; ITIS/Smithsonian Inst. USA; Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK; Naturalis Museum, The Netherlands; The Natural History Museum, UK; CONABIO/ ITIS Mexico;2. Regional taxonomic databasese.g. Fauna Europaea, ERMS, Euro+Med PlantBase, ITIS N.America, Species 2000 China Node, Species 2000 New Zealand, Australia Node (APNI, ABIF, AFD), etc.

  7. Partners and contributors to the Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life 3. Specialist international networkse.g. FishBase; AlgaeBase; TicksBase; ILDIS LegumeWeb; AnnonBase;CIPA Sandflies, Paris; UNESCO Register of Marine Organisms. 4. The ‘Life Work’ of individual specialistse.g. TITAN-Cerambycidae (Tavakilian, Paris), Conifer Database (Farjon, London), Mite families (Moraes, Piricicaba), Ichneumonoidea (Yu, Canada)

  8. ITIS N. America Europe Global Checklist Australia China 1. Inspecting species from several hubs Regional Checklist Hubs Regio

  9. ITIS N. America Europe Global Checklist Australia China Catalogue of Life Architecture II e.g. S.Africa e.g.Brazil Regional Checklist Hubs Regio

  10. Systema Naturae by Carl Linnaeus • 13 editions from 1735 to 1770 • 4,400 species of animals & 7,700 species of plants have been catalogued

  11. Catalogue of Life 2007 Annual Checklist • 1,008,965 accepted species • 79,393 accepted infraspecific taxa • 538,364 synonyms • 414,075 common names • 7th edition 2007 Annual Checklist 47 taxonomic databases over 3,000 taxonomists around the world a partnership between Species 2000 & ITIS

  12. I need to remind you that as well as being publicly funded……. ……………………. this is the work of a very large network of people…..

  13. Major users of the Catalogue of Life Individual users on the Web (largest load from Google)Individual users of the 3,000 CDs (intended for developing countries)School Children (Jessica of Cape Cod) GBIF data portal (provides the principal index) CBD programmes Clearing House Mechanism Global Taxonomy Initiative GSPC Target 1: Working List of Plants Biosafety Protocol Clearing House uBio US Library Initiative CoL Taxonomic Hierarchy & Checklist CRIA Brazil BIOTA Sao Paulo project Chinese Academy of Sciences National Biodiversity Hub SpeciesBase & Encyclopedia of Life – newly announced global programmes

  14. Introduce the Catalogue of Life • Illustrate progress in giving full taxonomic precision and integrity • – and ask whether these same issues impact on the collation of barcodes for identification purposes?

  15. Examples 1 & 2: using a group of Vicia (Vetch) species: Vicia serratifolia. Vicia johannis. Vicia narbonensis L.

  16. Taxonomic Concept Precision Ascherson & Graebner 1909including subsp. serratifolia Ascherson & Schweinf. / Schafer Plitmann 1967including subsp. johannis Kupicha 1976including subsps. serratifolia & johannis Maxted et al. 1991 Vicia narbonensis L.

  17. Taxonomic Treatment Precision or Integrity Ascherson & Graebner Ascherson & Schweinf. Plitmann 1967 Kupicha 1976 Maxted et al. 1991 Vicia serratifolia. Vicia narbonensis L. Vicia johannis.

  18. Taxonomic Treatment Precision or Integrity Ascherson & Graebner Ascherson & Schweinf. Plitmann 1967 Kupicha 1976 Maxted et al. 1991 Vicia serratifolia. Vicia narbonensis L. Vicia johannis.

  19. Taxonomic Treatment Precision or Integrity • Wrong! • Checklist contains two duplications • Discrimination unlikely • Retrieval of comparative data inaccurate Vicia serratifolia. Vicia narbonensis L. Vicia johannis.

  20. Taxonomic Treatment Precision or Integrity Ascherson & Graebner Ascherson & Schweinf. Plitmann 1967 Kupicha 1976 Maxted et al. 1991 Vicia serratifolia. Vicia narbonensis L. Vicia johannis.

  21. Taxonomic Treatment Precision or Integrity • Wrong! • Checklist contains ‘four’ omissions • Discrimination incomplete • Retrieval of comparative data incomplete Vicia serratifolia. Vicia narbonensis L. Vicia johannis.

  22. Conclusion: Ascherson & Graebner Ascherson & Schweinf. Plitmann 1967 Kupicha 1976 Maxted et al. 1991 - To achieve full coverage (each population or form in the checklist just one time) it is important for the checklist to follow accurately a single given taxonomic treatment or expert view

  23. Example 3: The Genus Cytisus (Brooms) and segragates . Cytisus(Cytisus tribracteolatus) Cytisus, or a segregate genusSarothamnus(Cytisus striatus or Sarothamnus striatus)

  24. Generic Precision or Integrity(Segregate genera) Cytisus Polhill 1991 Cytisus scoparius Sarothamnus scoparius Cytisus Sarothamnus Wimmer 1832

  25. Generic Precision or Integrity(Segregate genera) Forming the Species Checklist Cytisus OK! – Generic Integrity Cytisus Sarothamnus OK! – Generic Integrity Cytisus Sarothamnus Wrong! – Generic Integrity Lost

  26. Three types of taxonomic precision • that contribute quality to the Catalogue of Life • and that may impact the Barcode of Life? 1. Taxonomic Concept Precision 2. Taxonomic Treatment Precision (or Integrity) 3. Generic Precision (or Integrity) - Segregate genera

  27. Services: www.catalogueoflife .orgSpecies 2000 organisationwww.sp2000.org ITIS organisation www.itis.gov

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