Survey of Terrestrial Mollusca and Diplopoda (Millipedes) of Jamaica

小行星9870233 将对牙买加的陆生软体动物和千足虫动物群沿着其他土壤和落叶无脊椎动物进行密集采样。牙买加记录了大约550种蜗牛和蛞蝓，其中505种（92%）是地方性的，在世界其他地方都没有。已记录的千足虫约有52种，其中48种（92%）为特有种。 牙买加的软体动物区系与世界上任何一个国家一样多样，而且基本上是现存的，不像太平洋海洋岛屿上大多灭绝的陆地软体动物区系。虽然牙买加的原始森林覆盖率不到20%，森林砍伐仍在继续，但在许多崎岖的地区，森林仍然存在，而次生林也在许多废弃的种植园中生长。即使在牙买加的鸟类和爬行动物中，只有少数物种已经灭绝，因此仍然有可能对岛上大部分原始无脊椎动物群进行采样;然而，机会之窗正在迅速消失。 从这项研究中获得的采集量应该至少使千足虫动物群增加一倍，软体动物群增加约25%。其他无脊椎动物将提供给同意研究鞘翅目（甲虫）、直翅目（蟋蟀、蟑螂）、膜翅目（蚂蚁）、蛛形纲（蜘蛛、蝎子、假蝎子）和爪形目（peripatus）的专家。分拣后的残留物将被保存，以供进一步处理阿卡里（螨）、弹尾目（跳虫）等。拟议的研究将是牙买加有史以来最广泛的无脊椎动物采样，三年内有180个实地日。取样方法将包括手工采摘、落叶和土壤取样以及陷阱诱捕。估计将收集1，000，000份标本，包括14，000批软体动物（按物种分类）和14，000批节肢动物（按顺序或多或少分类）。可能会发现数百个新物种。 物种一级的生物多样性和特定地点的生态数据的知识将提供一个基线，为未来的研究人员研究系统学和进化，动物群的分布模式，影响多样性的因素，保护和恢复生物学。所有材料的收集数据将在万维网上公布，牙买加陆地软体动物所有已知物种的分布图和识别指南以及牙买加其他陆地无脊椎动物清单也将公布。

9870233 Rosenberg The terrestrial mollusk and millipede faunas of Jamaica will be intensively sampled, along with other soil and leaf litter invertebrates. About 550 described species of snails and slugs are recorded from Jamaica, of which 505 (92%) are endemic, occurring nowhere else in the world. About 52 described species of millipedes are recorded, of which 48 (92%) are endemic. The mollusk fauna of Jamaica is as diverse as any in the world, and it is largely extant, unlike the mostly extinct terrestrial mollusk faunas of oceanic islands in the Pacific. Although less than 20% of the original forest cover of Jamaica remains, and deforestation continues, patches of forest survive in many areas too rugged for agriculture, and secondary forest has also grown in many abandoned plantations. Even among Jamaican birds and reptiles, only a few species have gone extinct, so it may still be possible to sample a large portion of the island's original invertebrate fauna; however, the window of opportunity is rapidly disappearing. Collections resulting from this research should at least double the millipede fauna and increase the mollusk fauna by around 25%. Other invertebrates will be made available to specialists who have agreed to study Coleoptera (beetles), Orthoptera (crickets, cockroaches), Hymenoptera (ants), Arachnida (spiders, scorpions, pseudoscorpions) and Onychophora (peripatus). Residues from sorting will be preserved for further processing for Acari (mites), Collembola (springtails), etc. The proposed research will be the most extensive sampling of invertebrates ever performed in Jamaica, with 180 field days over three years. Sampling methods will include hand picking, leaf litter and soil sampling, and pitfall trapping. An estimated 1,000,000 specimens will be collected, including 14,000 lots of mollusks (sorted to species) and 14,000 lots of arthropods (sorted more or less to ordinal level). Hundreds of new species are likely to be discovered. Knowledge of species-level biodiversity and site-specific ecological data will provide a baseline for future researchers studying systematics and evolution, faunal distribution patterns, factors influencing diversity, and conservation and restoration biology. Collection data for all material will be published on WWW, as will distribution maps and identification guides for all known species of Jamaican terrestrial mollusks, and lists of other Jamaican terrestrial invertebrates.