Folks,

I thought that this might be of interest to many on Conch-L

Regards,
Charlie
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Charlie Sturm, Jr
Research Associate - Section of Mollusks
                     Carnegie Museum of Natural History
                     Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Assistant Professor - Family Medicine

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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:54:26 -0500
From: Paula Mikkelsen <[log in to unmask]>
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Cc: "Schuh, Randall T." <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [MOLLUSCA] New On-line Tool for Bivalve Systematics

PEET Bivalves announces new database

“Western Atlantic Bivalves” (ver. 1) is a new on-line checklist and
database, offered as a research and educational resource on the Recent
marine bivalves of the western Atlantic.  It is intended as a research tool,
primarily serving systematics, but with immediate applications to ecology,
environmental science, and parataxonomy.  To this extent, it also serves as
a catalog and identification tool.  Beginning from a phylogenetic family
list, the user can access an alphabetical species list for each family,
complete with recognized synonyms and other non-current names.  Any valid
name that is “blue-lined” is more fully presented as a series of
species-level webpages providing an image of the fully-adult shell,
taxonomic information (original citation, scan of the original description
[if allowed by copyright law], type locality, deposition of type material),
recognized synonyms, a distributional map, key characters, images of a
growth series, synonyms, common names, and reference to other internet links
and published works of significance.  Blue-lined synonyms lead to pages
restricted to taxonomic information only.

“Western Atlantic Bivalves” is an elaboration of the western Atlantic
bivalve portion of the 1998 American Fisheries Society checklist, "Common
and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and
Canada: Mollusks" by D. Turgeon, et al.  It removes two limitations of that
list, namely, the 200-ft depth limit, to include deep-water species, and all
geographical boundaries, to include all species that could be construed as
“western Atlantic,” from Greenland to Cape Horn.  It also includes synonyms,
misspellings, and names applied in error.  This list and its linked pages
are a work in progress, and updates and newly added pages expected to be
frequent.  Any comments, additions or suggestions are most welcome and
should be directed to Paula M. Mikkelsen <[log in to unmask]>.

This list is a product of NSF award DEB/PEET-9978119 to Rüdiger Bieler
(Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago) and Paula M. Mikkelsen (American
Museum of Natural History, New York).  The webmaster is Marla Coppolino
(AMNH).  "Western Atlantic Bivalves" can be accessed directly at
http://peet.amnh.org/Western_Atlantic_Bivalves/ or through the PEET Bivalves
web site at http://peet.fmnh.org/Products_Local_Resources.html.

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