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Mollusca Types in Great Britain: Founding a Union Database Author(S): Ablett, J.D., Gallichan, J., Holmes, A., Oliver, G., Rowson, B., Salvador, A., Turner, J http://www.natsca.org Journal of Natural Science Collections Title: Mollusca Types in Great Britain: founding a union database Author(s): Ablett, J.D., Gallichan, J., Holmes, A., Oliver, G., Rowson, B., Salvador, A., Turner, J. & Wood, H. Source: Ablett, J.D., Gallichan, J., Holmes, A., Oliver, G., Rowson, B., Salvador, A., Turner, J. & Wood, H. (2018). Mollusca Types in Great Britain: founding a union database. Journal of Natural Science Collections, Volume 6, 15 ‐ 30. URL: http://www.natsca.org/article/2510 NatSCA supports open access publication as part of its mission is to promote and support natural science collections. NatSCA uses the Creative Commons Attribution License (CCAL) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ for all works we publish. Under CCAL authors retain ownership of the copyright for their article, but authors allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy articles in NatSCA publications, so long as the original authors and source are cited. Ablett et al., 2018. JoNSC 6, pp.15-30 Mollusca Types in Great Britain: founding a union database Jonathan D. Ablett1*, Jennifer Gallichan2, Anna Holmes2, Graham Oliver2, Ben Rowson2, Andreia Salvador1, James Turner2, and Harriet Wood2 Address: 1 Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD 2 Department of Natural Sciences, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff, CF10 3NP Received: 20/08/2018 *Corresponding author: [email protected] Accepted: 26/11/2018 Citation: Ablett, J.D., Gallichan, J., Holmes, A., Oliver, G., Rowson, B., Salvador, A., Turner, J., And Wood, H., 2018. Mollusca Types in Great Britain: founding a union database. Journal of Natural Science Collections, 6, pp.15-30. Abstract Type specimens are essential to the study of malacology and are distributed across a wide range of museums in the UK. This initiative, funded by the John Ellerman Foundation, is the beginning of an integrated access and learning project bringing together curators from across the museum sector. Malacological curators from Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales (AC-NMW) and The Natural History Museum, London (NHM) worked with staff at seven partner museums in six UK cities. Together they developed a database and online resource connecting the Mollusca collections of National and other museums for the first time. At the time of publication, data on over 1800 type lots are available on the ‘Mollusca Types in Great Britain’ website. Since the launch in March 2018, some 1,189 users have accessed the site from over 60 countries. The database and website continue to be developed and new entries can be made at any time. The regional museum partners were given training focused on building confidence in recognising, researching, and interpreting the molluscan type specimens in their collections. The broader aims of this project were to strengthen and develop curatorial skills in specialist areas that could be transferable to other historically important natural history collections. Keywords: Type specimens, Mollusca, database, collections, digitisation, holotype, syntype, malacology, conchology, handwriting, taxonomy Introduction influence reaches many areas of human life (Dance, 1986; Coan and Kabat, 2018). Many are of social, Molluscs (e.g. snails, slugs, clams, and octopuses and economic, or medical importance as sources of food, their relatives) are an enormous group of animals, jewellery, dye, calcium, and even cloth or musical with around 80,000 known species in terrestrial and instruments, or as pests or vectors of disease (Tucker aquatic environments worldwide (Rosenberg, 2014). Abbott, 1989; Wilson, 2007; Thomas, 2007). The study Eminently collectible, molluscs have been gathered of molluscs is a specialist endeavour heavily reliant on and used by people since prehistory and their collections, and is known as malacology or © by the authors, 2018, except where otherwise attributed. Published by the Natural Sciences Collections Association. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 15 Ablett et al., 2018. JoNSC 6, pp.15-30 conchology. Shells form the nucleus of many great Galleries Fund. Entitled ‘Great British Mollusca Types’, natural history collections, with older collections in the aim of the project was to assist certain museums the UK particularly rich in types (Dance, 1986). in England, Scotland and Wales to better recognise their Mollusca types so that they may be safeguarded Nomenclatural type specimens, ‘types’, in natural and more widely used, and in turn for these natural history collections are the original specimens used to history collections to be more widely accessible and describe species. They are objects of permanent and celebrated. The key outputs of the project included global value, the fundamental basis of scientific the database, the dissemination of results, and naming and biodiversity inventories, and hence vital enhanced skills and knowledge of the participating to environmental research (ICZN, 1999). Types are still staff at each museum, as well as the stronger necessary and sought out by researchers, but many relationships forged between the institutions. Setting curators today are insufficiently specialised, or lack the scope of the project, in terms of the museums resources, to attend to their research and curation included, and its future expandability were given (Kemp, 2015; Deucher, 2017). Such types risk being much thought. 'lost' to the international scientific community, which is unaware of their location. This is exacerbated by There was no existing catalogue of Mollusca types for the fact that the UK is remarkably rich in museums all British or UK museums, though types at that hold type specimens, a situation not seen in Manchester were listed by McGhie (2008), at many other parts of the world. In our own experience, Edinburgh by Smaldon, Heppell and Watt (1974), and researchers from overseas often assume that types are sometimes covered in part by other works (e.g. are found only in centralised collections in a state’s McMillan, 1985 for Liverpool). Both AC-NMW and the capital city, and may overlook the smaller regional NHM have their own institutional specimen collections. Due to the historical reach of the British databases (see Wood and Turner, 2012; Scott and Empire and the UK’s global position in trade and Smith, 2014 respectively) and some specimen records industry, many UK museums hold type specimens not are available online through other museums’ just of national but also of international importance. databases. AC-NMW had previously verified, In order to improve our understanding of the natural databased and imaged all their Mollusca holotypes world, information on type specimens is desperately and lectotypes. Due to the large size of the Mollusca needed by the global scientific community in order to type collection in the NHM (c. 60,000 specimens) only (re-)define what a species actually is. Taxonomy and a subset of these specimen lots have been databased systematics is, however, not the only beneficiary of (19,183 as of 27th November 2018 - mainly from such research. When researched, understood, and direct register transcription efforts) and only a very documented, types can become the stars in stories of small fraction of these have been critically verified. historic, global exploration (e.g., Fraussen and Terryn, Due to the conditions of the funding source, the fact 2007; Breure, Audibert and Ablett, 2018) and that both lead institutions have permanent dedicated discovery by local pioneering naturalists (Emberton, molluscan curatorial staff and the large amount of 1907; Norman, 1907). They offer continuity between material involved, it was felt that the type holdings of the fervour of museums’ founding years and both museums would not be included in any initial contemporary scientific research. project stage. The focus was instead on verifying and uniting material from smaller UK museums. The curatorial teams in AC-NMW and NHM were uniquely placed to undertake an initiative to digitally It is not the only online initiative to focus on types in unite these scientifically valuable specimens for this way; others include GB3D Type Fossils Online global access and highlight the contribution of (Howe and McCormick, 2013) and the JSTOR Global dispersed regional museums’ collections to Plants Database (JSTOR, 2018). Such projects are worldwide science. The mollusc collections in these indicative of the demand to draw type material two institutions are the two largest in the UK, together and how this can be well-served in practice containing some of the most important collections by partnership projects that specialise in particular worldwide, and are currently the only UK museums to taxa or kinds of collections. MolluscaBase have dedicated Mollusca curatorial staff. Together, (MolluscaBase, 2018) is a well-known and well-used we have specialist expertise in most groups of database of Molluscan taxonomic names, which aims molluscs and access to huge comparative collections to ‘provide an authoritative, permanently updated and libraries. In 2016, our curatorial team received a account of all molluscan species’. Whilst such grant from the John Ellerman Regional Museums and databases are invaluable to researchers MolluscaBase 16 Ablett et al., 2018. JoNSC 6, pp.15-30 currently does not provide data on where the type and their contributors to
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