Dear Elena and colleagues,
Specific rebuttals should be addressed in the same journal, or at least a letter to the editorial board.
As Mariana Tovar liked to say, benthic ecologists are moving from cosmopolitan to exotic species, because they do not have the time, nor the will, for making a deeper analysis. Not just about searching for publications, which is regretful now, but to carefully compare (collate, as Linneaus liked to say) with specimens of similar size of the blank species.
At the same time, unlike most taxonomists, our colleagues do not have the time for making this type of analysis for any species they find, or think they find. They must keep running from sampling, sorting out specimens, identify them, and to write records and publish, such that they can hold their positions and, hopefully, be promoted. As such, their working conditions are just like ours. So, let's be patient with them. Let's share some experience and ideas with them by contacting them directly.
There is another thing that we should keep in mind. Throughout formal education students progressively lose their interest and making-questions ability. No wonder that by the time they are grown-ups, they will hardly ask for help, or question anything, especially when dealing with strict deadlines.
Let's be supportive, and more generous with our experience and ideas. Have fun,
Sergio
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De: annelida-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu <annelida-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu> en nombre de Elena Kupriyanova <Elena.Kupriyanova from austmus.gov.au>
Enviado: lunes, 3 de diciembre de 2018 02:31 a. m.
Para: 'annelida from net.bio.net'
Asunto: [Annelida] FW: Why are they doing it?
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.
Dr. Elena Kupriyanova
Senior Research Scientist
Marine Invertebrates
Associate Editor,
Records of the Australian Museum
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