Help me create a filter for marine life (wiki)

[w_martin]

I’ll refine this list after Xmas.
This Marine Filter is for Australia only so far not everything is included as it’s missing microscopic organisms, some marine plants, mammals & reptiles, but it can probably be used as a template for other continents. There may be some species I’ve excluded as I’ve only checked against Australian species.
If any species are terrestrial or Freshwater on your continent then add the lowest possible rank that doesn’t exclude marine species to the exclusion list.

Fish
Include: 47178,49232
Exclude: 58612,47520,51334,49887,49216,83707,85001,85891,48158,59116,95759,521489,87668,89377,87437,90179,86402,47354,90197,91930,503896,90267,86105,525665,88844,93804,88526,90738,85950,88528,87486,91963,623955,370903

Sharks & Rays
Include: 47273
Exclude:

Anemone/jelly
Include: 47534
Exclude: 171285

Sea Squirts
Include: 47811
Exclude:

Crustaceans

Include: 85493
Exclude: 84718,983321,2082088,2085718,1134694,342921,343789,1297361,2085350,85783,119123,644261

Birds
Include: 67564
Exclude:

Decapods
Include: 47186
Exclude: 342921,503896,82088,85783,209360

Bryozoans
Include: 68104
Exclude: 68105

Mammals
Include: 41736,41687,41567,41479, 846055,41454,41434,41401,46306,152871,
Exclude:

Microcrustaceans – Opossum Shrimp
Include: 47628,144115,245445,144125,245422,153112,85532
Exclude: 319059

Molluscs
Include: 551391,47459,47584,47114,47429
Exclude: 781349,133806,775812,372765,534850,86074,68812,85811

Reptiles
Include: 35201,39657
Exclude:

Echinoderms
Include: 47549
Exclude:

Sea Spiders
Include: 47825
Exclude:

Sponges
Include: 48824
Exclude: 517637

Worms
Include: 47491
Exclude: 122518,171276,333586

Seaweeds & Marine Plants
Include: 57774,50863,48220,52615,62865,50376, 50372
Exclude: 55164

[bobmcd]

Spent some time applying the inclusions and exclusions in the Wiki above to a RG collection project. Worldwide Marine Life. Duplicated the rules but as a RG and Needs ID project for a local place Salish Sea Marine Life.

The significance of limiting the worldwide project to RG is so that land based crabs, gastropods etc don’t show up because they have only been identified to family etc. A

&not_in_project=worldwide-marine-life

could be used to specifically look for land based organisms of interest.

Also for this project, worked on Ray-finned Fish exclusion heavily supplemented by rules from other marine fish projects, and heavy handed cherry picking from the resulting map to exclude species, genus, and or families etc of fish - one thing with fish is that in some cases a single species, or so it appeared, within a large genus had evolved to live solely in freshwater.

Also cherry picked species, genus, and or families of organisms such as crabs, flatworms, Chromista (maybe too much), and etc.

This still needs some auditing and editing. Need to audit @w_martin exclusions and inclusions to see if these are all used - working on that currently. Some birds such as loons, ducks and etc have not been included because I am unsure as to how much of their life cycle/time is spent in a marine environment. Fish could be further checked by someone who is very much into ichthyology.

As mentioned in the project About - diadromous fish ((fish that migrate between fresh and salt water) and migrating (or way off course) birds blur the inland boundaries - there are more of these bird observations in the western northern hemisphere from what I call the ebird vagrant effect (EVE) - multiple people documenting posted vagrants.

[fffffffff]

I think Talitridae can be called a part of marine life.

[bobmcd]

@fffffffff

Talitridae

Done thanks. Looks like it is exclusively marine but I will audit land masses.

[thomaseverest]

I’ve updated mollusks to exclude groups with more than a few hundred observations. Truncatelloidea and Cerithioidea have a big mix of marine and freshwater families, and more could be excluded if desired. Here’s what the RG map would be:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&quality_grade=research&subview=map&taxon_id=47115&without_taxon_id=47485,551438,775841,64009,245601,82170,83796,480274,801485,68812,489617,82220,871448,86005

[astra_the_dragon]

Thanks to everyone who has contributed thus far! Please feel free to use this crowdsourced list however you like. By the community for the community :)

Of course the next logical step is to make a MarineLifeIDathon ;P

[bobmcd]

Awesome! Give a heads up if you do. The worldwide RG project can be duplicated and have the rules changed to make a Needs ID project for a filter.

[astra_the_dragon]

I’ll keep it in mind for the future. It would work well for some ideas we’ve had. Next project is the next round of mentorship which is getting delayed a little due to (surprise) my poor health the last two weeks. So perhaps mid-February rather than late January.

[bobmcd]

Sorry to hear about your poor health. Wishing you nothing but the best. Looking forward to your generosity of time but understand as best I can.

[srsvivos]

can be separated between beach taxa (coast) and high seas taxa and other s marine areas