Fauna Europaea: Helminths (Animal Parasitic)

By

Gibson, David Ian
Bray, Rodney Alan, 1944-
Hunt, David
Georgiev, Boyko Borisov
Scholz, Tomáš, 1960-
Harris, Philip
Bakke, Tor
Pojmanska, Teresa
Niewiadomska, Katarzyna
Kostadinova, Aneta
Tkach, Vasyl
Bain, Odile
Durette-Desset, Marie-Claude.
Gibbons, Lynda Margaret
Moravec, František
Petter, Annie
Dimitrova, Zlatka
Buchmann, Kurt
Valtonen, E.
De Jong, Yde

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2014-9-17

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

2

Pages

1--33

Subjects

Acanthocephala , Biodiversity , biodiversity informatics , Cestoda , Fauna Europaea , helminth , Monogenea , Nematoda , parasite , Taxonomic indexing , taxonomy , Trematoda , Zoology

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1060

 

Abstract

Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names (including important synonyms) of all living European land and freshwater animals, their geographical distribution at country level (up to the Urals, excluding the Caucasus region), and some additional information. The Fauna Europaea project covers about 230,000 taxonomic names, including 130,000 accepted species and 14,000 accepted subspecies, which is much more than the originally projected number of 100,000 species. This represents a huge effort by more than 400 contributing specialists throughout Europe and is a unique (standard) reference suitable for many users in science, government, industry, nature conservation and education.<br> Helminths parasitic in animals represent a large assemblage of worms, representing three phyla, with more than 200 families and almost 4,000 species of parasites from all major vertebrate and many invertebrate groups. A general introduction is given for each of the major groups of parasitic worms, i.e. the Acanthocephala, Monogenea, Trematoda (Aspidogastrea and Digenea), Cestoda and Nematoda. Basic information for each group includes its size, host-range, distribution, morphological features, life-cycle, classification, identification and recent key-works. Tabulations include a complete list of families dealt with, the number of species in each and the name of the specialist responsible for data acquisition, a list of additional specialists who helped with particular groups, and a list of higher taxa dealt with down to the family level. A compilation of useful references is appended.