Assessing the magnitude of species richness in tropical marine environments: exceptionally high numbers of molluscs at a New Caledonia site

By Phil J. Bouchet, P. Lozouet, P. Maestrati, Virginie Héros. 2002

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• The spatial structure of Antarctic biodiversity (2014, background): “…high richness of many marine taxa in the Indo-West Pacific (IWP) area seems to be caused by the presence of large numbers of rare and small-sized species in the shallows (Bouchet et al. 2002), rare species are far less well represented in the few polar assemblages studied to date (Clarke 2009).”
• Implications of Time-Averaged Death Assemblages for Ecology and Conservation Biology (2013, background): “For example, Bouchet et al. (2002) encountered 2,738 species of shelled mollusks in a single New Caledonia lagoon, of which 783 (28”
• Towards a generalized biogeography of the Southern Ocean benthos (2009, background): “Gastropod molluscs tend to have particularly high levels of ecological and geographical endemism (and richness) at isolated localities (e.g. Bouchet et al., 2002).”
• GLOBAL MARINE BIODIVERSITY TRENDS (2006, background): “For example, Bouchet and colleagues (26) conducted a massive collecting effort (400 day persons at 42 sampling stations on a 295-km2 coral reef site in New Caledonia) and found 2738 morphospecies of marine mollusks.”
• The application of genetics to marine management and conservation: Examples from the Indo-Pacific (2014, background): “…array of marine biodiversity, with almost 4000 described species of fishes (Allen 2007), >700 tropical reef corals (Connolly et al 2003), an undescribed diversity of invertebrates (Bouchet et al. 2002, Appletans et al. 2012), and is thus celebrated as a prominent marine biodiversity hotspot.”
• The magnitude of global marine species diversity. (2012, unknown): “[6] (1999) present study Bouchet [7] (2006) Winston [8] (1992) Reaka-Kudla [9] (1996)”
• Vetigastropod phylogeny and a new concept of Seguenzioidea: independent evolution of copulatory organs in the deep‐sea habitats (2007, background): “Mollusca is arguably the most diverse phylum in the marine environment and its species are generally small to minute and many are very rare, so that assessing the magnitude of the richness requires massive collecting efforts (Bouchet et al. 2002).”
• Reef-associated crustacean fauna: biodiversity estimates using semi-quantitative sampling and DNA barcoding (2009, background): “This pattern has been found before with other reef-associated cryptofaunal groups such as isopods (Kensley 1998) and mollusks (Bouchet et al. 2002); in the latter study, 32% of the species collected in a survey of mollusk diversity in New Caledonia were collected at a single station, and 20% of the…”
• How well do we know the Antarctic marine fauna? A preliminary study of macroecological and biogeographical patterns in Southern Ocean gastropod and bivalve molluscs (2007, result): “In contrast Bouchet et al. (2002) found 2187 gastropod species in only 81,558 individuals.”
• Quantifying effects of pollution on biodiversity: a case study of highly diverse molluscan assemblages in the Mediterranean (2005, background): “…studies covered a wide array of marine environments, ranging from cold and polar areas (Buhl-Mortensen and Høisæter 1993; Cattaneo-Vietti et al. 2000) to temperate (Milazzo et al. 2000; Kelaher et al. 2001; Terlizzi et al. 2003b) and tropical environments (Zuskin et al. 2001; Bouchet et al. 2002).”
• Richness and distribution of sponge megabenthos in continental margin canyons off southeastern Australia (2007, background): “…of mollusc species found in a very comprehensive sampling programme on a coral reef complex in New Caledonia were collected from single stations (Bouchet et al. 2002); and (7) among Australian shallow-water sponge assemblages, 48 to 60% of species were found at single sites within the reef…”
• Molecular systematics of cowries (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) and diversification patterns in the tropics (2003, background): “(2001) and Bowen et al. (2001) proposed this latter scenario as a likely explanation for patterns of relationship within lineages of the echinoid Diadema and the trumpetfish Aulostomus, respectively. (3) Erosaria cernica may have breached the South African temperate barrier sometime in the past and ”
• The challenge of small and rare species in marine biodiversity surveys: microgastropod diversity in a complex tropical coastal environment (2011, background): “Using the same protocols as in the present study, Bouchet et al. (2002) reported 176 species of Triphoridae from the 30,000 hectares Koumac site on the west coast of New Caledonia; and a cumulative total of 321 triphorid species was obtained at three sites in New Caledonia (Héros et al. 2007).”
• CoRAl-ASSoCIATED INvERTEbRATES: DIvERSITy, EColoGICAl IMPoRTANCE AND vulNERAbIlITy To DISTuRbANCE (2011, background): “It is estimated that 1635 new marine species are currently described every year, mostly crustaceans and molluscs (bouchet 2006), but sampling effort remains insufficient for most invertebrate groups (bouchet et al. 2002).”
• Marine nematode deep‐sea biodiversity – hyperdiverse or hype? (2003, background): “Bouchet et al. (2002) made an intensive study of a 295 km site along the west coast and reported cataloguing 2738 species of Mollusca. This compares with the 180 species of Mollusca found by Blake & Grassle (1994) in the deep sea off the Carolinas. Data do exist for the polychaete fauna of the CCFZ ”