Abstract
The Community Biodiversity Strategy of the European
Commission provides a framework for the development
of Community policies and instruments to comply with
the Convention of Biological Diversity. Fauna Europaea
contributes by identifying and cataloging components
of European biodiversity to serve as a basic tool for
science and conservation policies. Fauna Europaea will
assemble a database of scienti¿ c names and distribution
of all living multicellular European land and fresh-water
animals, including nematodes. Marine nematodes are
included in a ‘sister’ project, the European Register of
Marine Species (ERMS). In anticipation of a Key to the
European Nematodes, the basal species list (Nematoden
van Nederland) was extended to include the whole of
Europe. Currently, the nematode database includes a
total of 2500 species, including the full name, author,
date, original genus, main synonyms and geographic
distribution. Classi¿ cation is based on the most recent,
generally accepted standards. Published records or
personal communications for material deposited and
available in a public nematode collection must support
database entries. Geographic information will be provided
for each species according to ISO-TDWG standards;
the reporting region will include Europe, Macaronesian
islands, Cyprus, Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya.
Species recorded from non-¿ eld locations including
glasshouses and aquariums will not be included.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Nematology Symposium abstracts |
| Place of Publication | Leiden |
| Publisher | Brill Academic Publishers |
| Pages | 148 (076)-149 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - 2002 |
