Talk:List of marine invertebrates of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay

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Section sizes

Section size for List of marine invertebrates of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay (74 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	2,715	2,715
Sponges	49	5,681
Calcarea – lime sponges	507	507
Demospongiae – fibre or horny sponges	5,125	5,125
Cnidarians	42	17,166
Anthozoa	42	9,339
Hexacorallians	5,036	5,036
Octocorallians	4,261	4,261
Medusozoa	57	7,785
Staurozoa	637	637
Scyphozoa – true jellyfish	1,688	1,688
Hydrozoans	5,403	5,403
Ctenophora – comb jellies	1,005	1,005
Platyhelminthes – flatworms	1,458	1,458
Annelida	992	12,368
Class Clitellata	27	251
Subclass Hirudinea – Leeches	224	224
Class Polychaeta – bristleworms	87	11,125
Subclass Echiura	422	422
Subclass Errantia	5,176	5,176
Subclass Sedentaria	5,440	5,440
Arthropods	57	34,699
Pycnogonida – sea spiders	856	856
Crustacea	58	33,078
Order Amphipoda	6,576	6,576
Order Cumacea	419	419
Order Decapoda	28	10,954
Infraorder Achelata	539	539
Infraorder Anomura – hermit crabs	1,772	1,772
Infraorder Axiidea	344	344
Infraorder Brachyura – true crabs	5,995	5,995
Infraorder Caridea – benthic prawns	2,000	2,000
Infraorder Gebiidea	276	276
Order Euphausiacea	310	310
Order Isopoda	8,522	8,522
Order Leptostraca	262	262
Order Mysida – mysid shrimps	1,334	1,334
Order Stomatopoda – mantis shrimps	549	549
Order Tanaidacea	633	633
Infraclass Cirripedia – barnacles	3,461	3,461
Class Copepoda	422	422
Class Hexapoda	286	286
Bryozoans – moss animals, lace animals	9,553	9,553
Molluscs	40	65,435
Gastropoda – slugs and snails	67	53,097
Patellogastropoda – true limpets	3,088	3,088
Vetigastropoda	3,622	3,622
Caenogastropoda	1,007	17,552
Littorinimorpha	7,110	7,110
Neogastropoda	9,435	9,435
Heterobranchia	466	28,768
clade Cephalaspidea – head shield slugs	1,822	1,822
clade Aplysiomorpha – sea hares	1,239	1,239
clade Sacoglossa – sap-sucking slugs	1,415	1,415
clade Pleurobranchomorpha – sidegill slugs	1,734	1,734
clade Nudibranchia – nudibranchs	21,277	21,277
Order Siphonariida	815	815
Bivalvia	7,431	7,431
Polyplacophora – chitons	2,383	2,383
Cephalopoda	2,484	2,484
Brachiopoda – lampshells	1,050	1,050
Echinoderms	62	7,624
Crinoidea – feather stars	694	694
Asteroidea – starfish	3,012	3,012
Ophiuroidea – brittlestars	1,862	1,862
Echinoidea – sea urchins	909	909
Holothuroidea – sea cucumbers	1,085	1,085
Chaetognatha – Arrow worms	160	160
Hemichordata	314	314
Tunicates	5,553	5,553
Cephalochordata – Lancelets	310	310
Geographical position of places mentioned in species ranges	12,977	12,977
See also	854	854
References	7,033	7,033
Total	185,955	185,955

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wow. There sure aren't a lot of blue links in the sponges so far... Seascapeza (talk) 19:44, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Too true. Not quite so bad with the batch of sharks, rays etc I have pasted in for you from the SA list. Lots of formatting needed, but I dont know what you plan there and what level of toxonomic structure you intend to use, so will leave that to you at this stage. I will do the same with bony fishes when they are ready (when I have gone through Smiths). Cheers, Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 19:24, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Scope

There are listings which may be geographically out of scope, but geographical scope has not yet been defined. Topographically the Cape Peninsula ends at Table Bay, and False Bay ends on a line between Cape Point and Cape Hangklip. I suggest we include the coastal waters adjacent to the Cape Peninsula, and probably False Bay, but how far offshore? We already include all of the TMNPMPA, which is fairly close inshore, and Table Bay, as far as Bloubergstrand, but don't mention how far offshore.

Should we include all of the Robben Island MPA?

How should we deal with historical records which are very vague, like 'west of Cape Town', or 'Cape of Good Hope'? Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 06:52, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion:

Missing group

No Siphonariidae. · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 04:23, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Added groups as required. · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 05:15, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Split

Article is getting very large. The obvious solution is to split out List of marine vertebrates of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay and rename the remaining page to List of marine invertebrates of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay. Current name will become a disambiguation page. · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 05:15, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Split has been done. · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 08:55, 3 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Updated

Update as of 2022 species lists now completed. Ranges for new species cited as TMNP MPS, which is all that the source covers, though it is likely that all have much larger ranges, which can be added when sources are found. · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 18:05, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List from Gosliner and Jones 2023, Southern African Sea Slugs

Temporary list of species from G&J 2023 for integration.

Caramel bubble snail, Rictaxis albus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1874), False Bay to KZN endemic (p54) Acteonidae
Tablecloth sidegill, Berthella sp. Atlantic side of Cape Peninsula, western False Bay (p66)
Lacy sidegill, Berthella sp. Atlantic side of Cape Peninsula, Knysna lagoon, possible endemic (p66)
Gossamer sidegill, Berthella sp. Atlantic side of Cape Peninsula, endemic, (p66)