De-domesticated species play a key role in trophic rewilding, especially in Europe. These animals are typically ecologically and phenotypically distinct from their domestic progenitors, but are not distinguished taxonomically. When I searched the GBIF for data on domestic or feral species or sub-species the data seemed to be incredibly patchy and didn't reflect the distribution of either domestic forms or de-domesticated forms. Furthermore, I couldn't find any guidance on how to deal with 'domestic' species within wild settings. Any insights into this would be greatly appreciated.
Hi Richard
Maybe the following reference will help you getting in the right direction?
Wyrwoll, T.W. (2003) Still desiderata: scientific names for domestic animals and their feral derivatives. In: The New Panorama of Animal Evolution [Proceedings of the 18thInternational Congress of Zoology] (eds A. Legakis, S. Sfenthourakis, R. Polymeni & M. Thessalou-Legaki), pp. 683–697. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia – Moscow.
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Kind regards
Emmanuel
Thanks, this is an interesting paper. Unfortunately the proposal does not seem to have been generally adopted.... if it had been then maybe the data in biodiversity information systems would be more consistent.
In some papers I discussed the particular case of Island mammals taxonomy and nomenclature, particularly of the Mediterranean Region Article Anthropochorous Wild Mammal Taxa and Conservation Lists
In the case of mouflon, the name Ovis aries musimon was suggested - linking it to the domestic species but adding a subspecific name. Our primary concern was that such old entities should not appear as truly wild taxa. Perhaps this may be a useful suggestion for your question.
I'm not sure if that answers completely your question, but (in my personal experience) GBIF sometimes (not always) just takes distribution data from iNaturalist Research-Grade observations: that creates some issues if you work with domestic or feral animals' distributions, because the observations on iNat might be regarded/flagged as reports of captive species and they "lose" the Research Grade status. When that happens, you may just don't find the report on GBIF.
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