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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">from a database perspective, would this
not just be a separate storage collection that would need to be
entered for the associated species in their respective taxon-based
databases?</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">In the case of some (Marine) parasites,
it would also be very difficult to separate the different
organisms, I think the key challenges from a collections
management point of view are</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">- knowing that these specimens are
there</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">- and where I could find them (if they
are obviously not in the respective taxonomic collection, but
still associated with the sea fan)</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Also - very classical solution - you
could created dummy lots without contents for the respective
collections so that there is a physical representation of "the
jar", and the printed label says says where to find the object.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Mixed samples (also: eDNA, soil
samples) will be difficult to handle in taxon-based collections,
but surely will increase (unsorted malaise traps returned from the
field would in principle also belong into this category). We can
handle this more easily now in our databases by setting respective
references and internal linkages; this surely was more of a
challenge back in the days of file cards and hand-written
inventory book entries.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">By separating them, you definitely
loose "information" - I would keep them together, unless a
specific (research) question requires "disconnection".<br>
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Hope this helps</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dirk<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 16.11.2021 um 14:46 schrieb
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<p class="MsoNormal">Folks, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m working with some interesting questions
at the moment and thought I’d ask for colleagues’ input. Look
on it as broader service to science or something.
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style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">I’m dealing
today with a sea fan (Cnidaria: Alcyonacea) that bears
several wing oysters (Mollusca: Pteriidae) and barnacles
(Crustacea: Cirripeda) as well as a couple of tube worms
(Annelida: Polychaeta) and countless diatoms. As a
collections manager, do I physically separate the individual
specimens and send them off to their respective collections
(General Invertebrates [Cnidaria], Mollusca and General
Invertebrates [Crustacea] and [Annelida]) or preserve the
assemblage intact? If they were tigers and snails collected
at the same spot, for example, there would be no problem
doing this; but snails don’t live on tigers.<o:p></o:p></li>
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style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">If I choose
not to separate them (correctly, I think), then once I
catalog the individual taxa into their respective databases,
into which collection does the assemblage physically go? All
four epibionts are attached to the sea fan, so that would
seem to have the best claim to priority as it’s both a
specimen in its own right and a substrate for the others.
The problem there is that our General Invertebrates
collection is not funded, whereas our mollusk collection is.
Our neontological “departments” are all taxon-based and each
has its own community of curators, managers, associates and
researchers as well as its own demands on space,
infrastructure and support.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Most museums
divide their Recent collections by taxon as above. However,
this contrasts with Vertebrate and Invertebrate
Paleontology, which are pan-taxonomical disciplines. Our
Recent crabs, for example, go in the Crustacea collection,
away from their commensal mollusk chums, but fossil crabs
and mollusks both belong in a single Invertebrate
Paleontology collection, while fossil fishes and mammoths
snuggle up in the Vertebrate Paleontology collection.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">How then
does the existence and maintenance of neontological
taxon-based collections (Entomology, Malacology, Mammalogy
etc) configure science – does it encourage the emergence of
museum entomologists, malacologists and mammalogists over,
say, benthic ecologists?<o:p></o:p></li>
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