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Dr Rosenberg, Gary
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Gary has been developing databases of marine mollusks since the early 1990s and his Malacolog database for Western Atlantic species has been online since 1995. He has been involved with WoRMS since 2009 as one of the editors for Mollusca and is one of the core group that developed MolluscaBase as an outgrowth of WoRMS. The data assembled in WoRMS enabled his 2014 publication estimating global diversity of Recent Mollusca. It has been gratifying to see WoRMS become a community standard, but he thinks more can be done to improve its usefulness and reliability, such as search interfaces that allow simultaneous access to more fields, better algorithms for name matching, and more rigorous approaches to documentation.

Taxonomic term: Mollusca [WoRMS]

Drexel University; Academy of Natural Sciences, more

Function: Curator
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MolluscaBase eds., more

Function: Chief taxonomic editor

WoRMS Editorial Board (WoRMS editors), more

Function: Chief taxonomic editor

WoRMS Steering Committee (SC), more

Period: From 22nd Aug 2016 till Aug 2019

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Accessed at https://www.molluscabase.org on yyyy-mm-dd, more
Rosenberg et al. A Biotic Database of Indo-Pacific Marine Mollusks. Morris, P., Pennsylvania, USA. http://clade.acnatsci.org/obis/, more

A1 Publications (14) [show]
Rosenberg, G.; Auffenberg, K.; Bank, R.; Bieler, R.; Bouchet, P.; Herbert, D.; Köhler, F.; Neubauer, T.A.; Neubert, E.; Páll-Gergely, B.; Richling, I.; Schneider, S. (2022). Adapting mark-recapture methods to estimating accepted species-level diversity: a case study with terrestrial Gastropoda. PeerJ 10: e13139. https://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13139, more Bieler, R.; Sierwald, P.; Shea, E.K.; Rosenberg, G. (2018). Mobilizing mollusks: Status update on Mollusk Collections in the U.S.A. and Canada. Am. Malacol. Bull. 36(2): 177-215. https://dx.doi.org/10.4003/006.036.0202, more Sierwald, P.; Shea, E.K.; Bieler, R.; Rosenberg, G. (2018). Priorities and opportunities for digitizing Mollusk Collections. Am. Malacol. Bull. 36(2): 171-177. https://dx.doi.org/10.4003/006.036.0201, more Horton, T.; Gofas, S.; Kroh, A.; Poore, G.C.B.; Read, G.; Rosenberg, G.; Stöhr, S.; Bailly, N.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Brandão, S.N.; Costello, M.J.; Decock, W.; Dekeyzer, S.; Hernandez, F.; Mees, J.; Paulay, G.; Vandepitte, L.; Vanhoorne, B.; Vranken, S. (2017). Improving nomenclatural consistency: a decade of experience in the World Register of Marine Species. Eur. J. Taxon. 389: 1-24. https://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.389, more Uit de Weerd, D.R.; Robinson, D.G.; Rosenberg, G. (2016). Evolutionary and biogeographical history of the land snail family Urocoptidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) across the Caribbean region. J. Biogeogr. 43(4): 763-777. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12692, more Borrero, F.J.; Rosenberg, G. (2015). The Paul Hesse collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with a review of names for Mollusca introduced by Hesse. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 164(1): 43-100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1635/053.164.0109, more Rosenberg, G. (2014). A new critical estimate of named species-level diversity of the recent Mollusca. Am. Malacol. Bull. 32(2): 308-322. http://dx.doi.org/10.4003/006.032.0204, more Rosenberg, G.; Snyder, M.A. (2013). The recent species of Granolaria (Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae), with clarification of the identity of Murex salmo Wood, 1828. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 162(1): 175-186. http://dx.doi.org/10.1635/053.162.0111, more Rosenberg, G.; Stahlschmidt, P. (2011). A new species of Lienardia (Gastropoda: Conoidea) from the Philippines and the Spratly Islands. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 161(1): 105-115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1635/053.161.0108, more Rosenberg, G. (2010). Description of a new species of Prionovolva (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Ovulidae) from East Africa, with reassessment of the composition of the genus. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 159(1): 39-66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1635/053.159.0104, more McClain, C.R.; Boyer, A.G.; Rosenberg, G. (2006). The island rule and the evolution of body size in the deep sea. J. Biogeogr. 33(9): 1578-1584. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01545.x, more Rosenberg, G.; Petit, R.E. (2003). Kaicher's card catalogue of world-wide shells: a collation, with discussion of species named therein. The Nautilus 117(4): 99-120, more Roy, K.; Jablonski, D.; Valentine, J.W.; Rosenberg, G. (1998). Marine latitudinal diversity gradients: tests of causal hypotheses. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95(7): 3699-3702, more Rosenberg, G. (1993). A database approach to studies of molluscan taxonomy, biogeography and diversity, with examples from Western Atlantic marine gastropods. Am. Malacol. Bull. 10(2): 257-266, more
Peer reviewed publications (3) [show]
Lorenz, F.; Rosenberg, G. (2020). A new species of Pseudosimnia from Hawaii (Gastropoda: Ovulidae), in: Herrmann, M. (Ed.) News on cowries and related families. Acta Conchyliorum, 19: pp. 77-84, more Harasewych, J.; Rosenberg, G.; Lee, H.; Joffe, A.; Garvie, C.; Campbell, L.; Garcia, E.F.; Schnetler, I.; Callomon, P. (2014). Conchologia gratissima: Remembering Dick Petit. Conchol. Ingrata 16: 10 pp, more Rosenberg, G.; Salisbury, R. (2003). On Mitromica and Thala (Gastropoda: Costellariidae) with descriptions of new species from the Western Atlantic and Indo-Pacific. Notulae Naturae, 478. The Academy of Natural Sciences: [s.l.]. ISBN 1604834781. 30 pp., more
Books (2) [show]
Callomon, P.; Rosenberg, G.; Lawless, A.S. (Ed.) (2012). Program and abstracts. American Malacological Society 78^th annual meeting, Cherry Hill, New Jersey. American Malacological Society: [s.l.]. XVIII, 131 pp., more Turgeon, D.; Quinn, J.F.; Bogan, A.E.; Coan, E.V.; Hochberg, F.G.; Lyons, W.G.; Mikkelsen, P.M.; Neves, R.J.; Roper, C.F.E.; Rosenberg, G.; Roth, B.; Scheltema, A.; Thompson, F.G.; Vecchione, M.; Williams, J.D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks. Second edition. Special Publication. American Fisheries Society, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda. ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp., more
Book chapters (4) [show]
Khoo, M.; Rosenberg, G. (2015). Historical records and digitization factors in biodiversity communities of practice, in: Garoufallou, E. et al. (Ed.) Metadata and semantics research. 9th Research Conference, MTSR 2015, Manchester, UK, September 9-11, 2015, Proceedings. pp. 336-347, more Rosenberg, G.; Garcia, E.F.; Moretzsohn, F. (2009). Gastropods (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, in: Felder, D.L. et al. (Ed.) Gulf of Mexico origin, waters, and biota: Volume I. Biodiversity. Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Series, : pp. 579-699, more Turgeon, D.D.; Lyons, W.; Mikkelsen, P.; Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F. (2009). Bivalvia (Mollusca), in: Felder, D.L. et al. Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota: Biodiversity. pp. 711-744, more Rosenberg, G. (2006). Computerizing shell collections, in: Sturm, C.F. et al. (Ed.) The mollusks: a guide to their study, collection, and preservation. pp. 101-110, more
Abstract [show]
Rosenberg, G. (2004). Species naming curves versus species accumulation curves, in: Ocean Biodiversity Informatics, Hamburg, Germany: 29 November to 1 December 2004: book of abstracts. pp. 49, more

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