Corresponding authors: Kees van Achterberg (
Academic editor: Michael Kuhlmann
For the
In 1998 the European Commission published the
With regard to biodiversity in Europe, science and policies depend on sufficient knowledge of its components. The assessment of biodiversity, monitoring changes, sustainable exploitation of biodiversity, as well as much legislative work depends upon a validated taxonomic overview, in which
In the
This paper is the first publication of the
Although practically treated as a grade,
The
Introduction
The
This BDJ data paper includes the taxonomic indexing efforts in
The taxonomic framework of
Every taxonomic group is covered by at least one Group Coordinator responsible for the supervision and integrated input of taxonomic and occurrence data of a particular group. For
The
Data management tasks were taken care about by the
The area study covers the European mainland (Western Palaearctic), including the Macaronesian islands, excluding the Caucasus, Turkey, Arabian Peninsula and Northern Africa (Fig.
Additional support for preparing the
See spatial coverage and geographic coverage descriptions.
To facilitate data transfer and data import, sophisticated on-line (web interfaces) and off-line (spreadsheets) data-entry routines have been built, well integrated within an underlying central Fauna Europaea transaction database (see Fig.
For accumulating the data a Visual Basic tool was developed by Henk van Achterberg, including an export routine converting the underlying MS Access database into a suitable data import format (Fig.
A first release of the Fauna Europaea index via the web-portal has been presented at 27th of September 2004, the most recent release (version 2.6.2) was launched at 29 August 2013. A latest addition to the
Furthermore, all
Checks on technical and logical correctness of the data were implemented by the data entry tools, including around 50 '
This thorough review procedure makes
To optimise the use and implementation of a uniform and correct nomenclature, a cross-referencing of the Fauna Europaea
By evaluating team structure and life cycle procedures (data-entry, validation, updating, etc.), clear definitions of roles of users and user-groups, according to the taxonomic framework were established, including ownership and read and write privileges, and their changes during the project life-cycle. In addition, guidelines on common data exchange formats and codes have been issued (see also Suppl. material
Species and subspecies distributions in Fauna Europaea are registered at least a country level, meaning political countries. For this purpose the FaEu geographical system basically follows the TDWG standards. The covered area includes the European mainland (Western Palaearctic), plus the Macaronesian islands (excl. Cape Verde Islands), Cyprus, Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya. Western Kazakhstan and the Caucasus are excluded (see Fig.
The focus is on species (or subspecies) of European multicellular animals of terrestrial and freshwater environments. Species in brackish waters, occupying the marine/freshwater or marine/terrestrial transition zones, are generally excluded.
Mediterranean and Arctic Latitude; Atlantic Ocean (Azores) and Ural Longitude.
The Fauna Europaea database contains the scientific names of all living European land and freshwater animal species, including numerous infra-groups and synonyms. More details about the conceptual background of Fauna Europaea and standards followed are described in the project description papers.
This data paper covers the
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Currently living animals in stable populations, largely excluding (1) rare / irregular immigrants, intruder or invader species, (2) accidental or deliberate releases of exotic (pet)species, (3) domesticated animals, (4) foreign species imported and released for bio-control or (5) foreign species largely confined to hothouses.
Open Data Commons Attribution License
For correct use and citing of the
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datasetName | The name identifying the data set from which the record was derived ( |
version | Release version of data set |
versionIssued | Issue data of data set version |
rights | Information about rights held in and over the resource ( |
rightsHolder | A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource ( |
accessRights | Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status ( |
taxonID | An identifier for the set of taxon information ( |
parentNameUsageID | An identifier for the name usage of the direct parent taxon (in a classification) of the most specific element of the scientific Name ( |
scientificName | The full scientific name, with authorship and date information if known ( |
acceptedNameUsage | The full name, with authorship and date information if known, of the currently valid (zoological) taxon ( |
originalNameUsage | The original combination (genus and species group names), as firstly established under the rules of the associated nomenclatural Code ( |
family | The full scientific name of the family in which the taxon is classified ( |
familyNameId | An identifier for the family name |
genus | The full scientific name of the genus in which the taxon is classified ( |
subgenus | The full scientific name of the subgenus in which the taxon is classified. Values include the genus to avoid homonym confusion ( |
specificEpithet | The name of the first or species epithet of the scientific Name ( |
infraspecificEpithet | The name of the lowest or terminal infraspecific epithet of the scientificName, excluding any rank designation ( |
taxonRank | The taxonomic rank of the most specific name in the scientific Name ( |
scientificNameAuthorship | The authorship information for the scientific Name formatted according to the conventions of the applicable nomenclatural Code ( |
authorName | Author name information |
namePublishedInYear | The four-digit year in which the scientificName was published ( |
Brackets | Annotation if authorship should be put between parentheses |
nomenclaturalCode | The nomenclatural code under which the scientific Name is constructed ( |
taxonomicStatus | The status of the use of the scientificName as a label for a taxon ( |
resourceDescription | An account of the resource, including a data-paper DOI ( |
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datasetName | The name identifying the data set from which the record was derived ( |
version | Release version of data set |
versionIssued | Issue data of data set version |
rights | Information about rights held in and over the resource ( |
rightsHolder | A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource ( |
accessRights | Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status ( |
taxonName | The full scientific name of the higher-level taxon |
scientificNameAuthorship | The authorship information for the scientific Name formatted according to the conventions of the applicable nomenclatural Code ( |
taxonRank | The taxonomic rank of the most specific name in the scientific Name ( |
taxonID | An identifier for the set of taxon information ( |
parentNameUsageID | An identifier for the name usage of the direct parent taxon (in a classification) of the most specific element of the scientific Name ( |
resourceDescription | An account of the resource, including a data-paper DOI ( |
Henk van Achterberg is thanked for developing the very useful Visual Basic tool for preparing the initial data set. The authors thank the respective artists and photographers for their generous contribution to the paper.
FaEu
Fauna Europaea geographic coverage ('minimal Europe').
Fauna Europaea on-line (browser interfaces) and off-line (spreadsheets) data entry tools.
Fauna Europaea -
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Andreas Taeger & Stephan Blank | 64 | 55 | 71 | c. 78 | |
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Andreas Taeger & Stephan Blank | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
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Kees van Achterberg | 3499 | 3602 | 3615 | c. 4800 | Resource: |
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Andreas Taeger & Stephan Blank | 43 | 43 | 44 | c. 48 | |
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Andreas Taeger & Stephan Blank | 54 | 48 | 49 | c. 54 | |
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Andreas Taeger & Stephan Blank | 23 | 19 | 19 | c. 21 | |
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Kees Zwakhals | 5865 | 5865 | 6644 | c. 7300 | Resource: |
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Andreas Taeger & Stephan Blank | 22 | 22 | 25 | c. 27 | |
Andreas Taeger & Stephan Blank | 7 | 7 | 6 | c. 7 | ||
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Andreas Taeger & Stephan Blank | 60 | 55 | 59 | ||
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Andreas Taeger & Stephan Blank | 19 | 17 | 19 | c. 21 | |
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Andreas Taeger & Stephan Blank | 1042 | 1001 | 1034 | c. 1130 [incl. |
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Andreas Taeger & Stephan Blank | 7 | 7 | 9 | c. 10 | |
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Andreas Taeger & Stephan Blank | 11 | 15 | 15 | c. 17 |
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xlsx
Cross-validation of Fauna Europaea (version 2.6.2) and
File: oo_145108.xlsx
Fauna Europaea Guidelines for Group Coordinators and Taxonomic Specialists
File: oo_140930.pdf