Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species

Pagad and colleagues (2018) have a new paper about the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species. Naturally, I went looking for Marmorkrebs.

The first interesting thing is that Marmorkrebs appeared in the database with four different species name variations:

• Procambarus fallax (incomplete)
• Procambarus fallax f virginalis (missing period)
• Procambarus fallax f. virginalis (correct)
  
• Procambarus fallaxformvirginalis (even if spaces were added, would be wrong: “form” should be “forma”)
  

You can’t search for common names, for the looks of things, just Latin ones. We will have to wait and see whether the proposal to change the name of Marmorkrebs to Procambarus virginalis will reduce the number of variations in lists like these, or just be one more variant to search for.

The second interesting thing is that are only four countries on the list: Germany, Sweden, Croatia, Ukraine. The map of Marmorkrebs introductions that I curate has six more: Madagascar, Japan, Italy, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and the Netherlands. It will be interesting to check in from time to time to see how long it takes for this to be updated.

References

Pagad S, Genovesi P, Carnevali L, Schigel D, McGeoch MA. Introducing the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species. Scientific Data

External links

Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species 5: 170202. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.202