Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery

Audrey Looby; Christine Erbe; Santiago Bravo; Kieran Cox; Hailey L Davies; Lucia Di Iorio; Youenn Jézéquel; Francis Juanes; Charles W Martin; T Aran Mooney; Craig Radford; Laura K Reynolds; Aaron N Rice; Amalis Riera; Rodney Rountree; Brittnie Spriel; Jenni Stanley; Sarah Vela; Miles J G Parsons

doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4

Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery

Sci Data. 2023 Dec 18;10(1):892. doi: 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4.

Authors

Audrey Looby^{1

2}, Christine Erbe³, Santiago Bravo⁴, Kieran Cox⁵, Hailey L Davies⁶, Lucia Di Iorio⁷, Youenn Jézéquel⁸, Francis Juanes⁶, Charles W Martin^{9

10}, T Aran Mooney⁸, Craig Radford¹¹, Laura K Reynolds¹², Aaron N Rice¹³, Amalis Riera⁶, Rodney Rountree^{6

14}, Brittnie Spriel⁶, Jenni Stanley¹⁵, Sarah Vela^{16

17}, Miles J G Parsons¹⁸

Affiliations

¹ Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. [email protected].
² Nature Coast Biological Station, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Cedar Key, FL, USA. [email protected].
³ Centre for Marine Science and Technology, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
⁴ Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
⁵ Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.
⁶ Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.
⁷ Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, CNRS, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France.
⁸ Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA.
⁹ Nature Coast Biological Station, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Cedar Key, FL, USA.
¹⁰ Stokes School of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of South Alabama and Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL, USA.
¹¹ Institute of Marine Science, Leigh Marine Laboratory, University of Auckland, Warkworth, New Zealand.
¹² Soil, Water, and Ecosystem Sciences Department, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
¹³ K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
¹⁴ The Fish Listener, Waquoit, MA, USA.
¹⁵ Coastal Marine Field Station, School of Science, University of Waikato, Tauranga, New Zealand.
¹⁶ MERIDIAN, Halifax, NS, Canada.
¹⁷ Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
¹⁸ Australian Institute of Marine Science, Perth, WA, Australia.

Abstract

A working group from the Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds effort collaborated with the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) to create an inventory of species confirmed or expected to produce sound underwater. We used several existing inventories and additional literature searches to compile a dataset categorizing scientific knowledge of sonifery for 33,462 species and subspecies across marine mammals, other tetrapods, fishes, and invertebrates. We found 729 species documented as producing active and/or passive sounds under natural conditions, with another 21,911 species deemed likely to produce sounds based on evaluated taxonomic relationships. The dataset is available on both figshare and WoRMS where it can be regularly updated as new information becomes available. The data can also be integrated with other databases (e.g., SeaLifeBase, Global Biodiversity Information Facility) to advance future research on the distribution, evolution, ecology, management, and conservation of underwater soniferous species worldwide.

Publication types

Dataset

MeSH terms

Animals
Biodiversity*
Cetacea
Ecology*
Fishes
Sound