A world dataset on the geographic distributions of Solenidae razor clams (Mollusca: Bivalvia)
Saeedi, H.; Costello, M.J. (2019). A world dataset on the geographic distributions of Solenidae razor clams (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Biodiversity Data Journal 7: e31375. https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/bdj.7.e31375 In: Biodiversity Data Journal. Pensoft Publishers: Sofia. ISSN 1314-2836; e-ISSN 1314-2828, more |   |
| Keywords | Collections > Museum collections
Control > Quality control
Geographic distribution
Mollusca [WoRMS]; Solenidae Lamarck, 1809 [WoRMS]
Marine/Coastal | | Author keywords | Global; razor clams; dataset; latitudinal gradient in species richness. |
| Authors | | Top | - Saeedi, H.
- Costello, M.J., more
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| Abstract | 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). |
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