We are excited to announce the grand opening of a major new
web resource, The Freshwater Gastropods of The Ohio, by Martin Kohl, Ryan
Evans, Mark Pyron, Tom Watters, Kevin Cummings, Will Reeves, Jeff Bailey, Mike
Whitman, and myself. Check it out:
Here we report the results of a comprehensive
freshwater gastropod survey conducted over all waters draining into the Ohio River above
the mouth of the Tennessee/Cumberland, an area of some 144,000 square miles. Roughly 37% of the 5,250 records the team gathered
were from museums, 35% from natural resource agencies, and 26% from original
field collections. We identified 70
species and subspecies of freshwater gastropods inhabiting this vast study area, providing a dichotomous key, a photo gallery, range maps and ecological notes
for each.
With the addition of the Ohio fauna to the faunas of the Atlantic
and Tennessee drainages previously documented, the overall coverage of the Freshwater
Gastropods of North America web resource has expanded from 89 to 113
species and subspecies, inhabiting all or part of 15 states. The main FWGNA site now features an updated
“Synthesis 3.0” in which every element of this diverse and far-flung fauna is
ranked and classified into quartiles by incidence, using the Gaston system we
pioneered back in 2013.
The entire site has been spruced up and polished to a fine
sheen. Even the bibliography has been updated,
now featuring 268 entries. Visit us
again, for the first time!