[Annelida] FW: Why are they doing it?

[Prof.ssa Adriana Giangrande]

Dear Elena, yes I agree with Christos and Daniel, you must write it!
all the best
Adriana

Il giorno lun 3 dic 2018 alle ore 03:31 Elena Kupriyanova <
Elena.Kupriyanova from austmus.gov.au> ha scritto:

> Dear all,
>
> Sorry, I just cannot be quiet about it. I just seriously wonder why
> invasion ecologists so blatantly ignore any taxonomical research and I
> wonder where they get information that they publish?
>
> Here is a recent example
> https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0191859
>
> They claim that they found common Australian serpulid Spirobranchus
> taeniatus and that it is a NATIVE SPECIES in Bay of Biscay, Spain. A
> 5-second search shows to anyone that this species was described from
> Australia and is known only from temperate Australia (for example
> http://www.iobis.org/explore/#/taxon/844904).
> They also write exactly this:
> Five species were not native: Crassostrea gigas, Ostrea stentina,
> Austrominius modestus, Serpula columbiana, and Neodexiospira sp. C. gigas
> and A. modestus are listed in the global invasive species database (GISD,
> http://www.issg.org/database).
> Yes, Serpula columbiana is not a native species in the study area, it is
> known only from the West Coast of the USA, but it is NOT listed in the
> database above (check you don't belive me)!
> See Fig. 5 - this is what their wonderful identification "using genetic
> barcoding" looks like  - the sequences are fragments of 18S! And their
> photos do not even closely resemble tubes of Spirobranchus taeniatus and
> Serpula columbiana.
> I just cannot believe it.
>
>
>
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