TY  - JOUR
A1  - Saeedi, Hanieh
A1  - Costello, Mark J.
T1  - A world dataset on the geographic distributions of Solenidae razor clams (Mollusca: Bivalvia)
T2  - Biodiversity Data Journal
N2  - Background: Using this dataset, we examined the global geographical distributions of Solenidae species in relation to their endemicity, species richness and latitudinal ranges and then predicted their distributions under future climate change using species distribution modelling techniques (Saeedi et al. 2016a, Saeedi et al. 2016b). We found that the global latitudinal species richness in Solenidae is bi-modal, dipping at the equator most likely derived by high sea surface temperature (Saeedi et al. 2016b). We also found that most of the Solenidae species will shift their distribution ranges polewards due to global warming (Saeedi et al. 2016a). We also provided a comprehensive review of the taxon to test whether the latitudinal gradient in species richness was uni-modal with a peak in the tropics or northern hemisphere or asymmetric and bimodal as proposed previously (Chaudhary et al. 2016).
New information: This paper presents an integrated global geographic distribution dataset for 77 Solenidae taxa, including 3,034 geographic distribution records. This dataset was compiled after a careful data-collection and cleaning procedure over four years. Data were collected using field sampling, literature and from open-access databases. Then all the records went through quality control procedures such as validating the taxonomy of the species by examining and re-identifying the specimens in museum collections and using taxonomic and geographic data quality control tools in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and the r-OBIS package (Provoost and Bosch 2017). This dataset can thus be further used for taxonomical and biogeographical studies of Solenidae.
KW  - Global
KW  - geographic distributions
KW  - Solenidae
KW  - razor clams
KW  - Mollusca
KW  - dataset
KW  - quality control
KW  - museum collections
KW  - latitudinal gradient in species richness
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/48450
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-484502
SN  - 1314-2828
N1  - © Saeedi H, Costello M. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
VL  - 7
IS  - e31375
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
PB  - Pensoft Publishers
CY  - Sofia
ER  -