Kinorhyncha
Measurement Database

Update info

22 Nov. 2022: The Kinorhyncha Measurement Database is opened.

About this database

This is a database for morphometrics of Kinorhyncha created by Alberto González-Casarrubios (Complutense University of Madrid) and Dr Hiroshi Yamasaki (Kyushu University).

The database is an online repository of morphological measurements of kinorhynch species and individuals.  The aim of the database is to collect the morphometric data of kinorhynchs at the individual (specimen) level for all described species.

The morphometric data  for deposited in the database is all measured following González-Casarrubios et al. (2023).  The standard template for taking measurements can be downloaded as an Excel file, as a csv file, or from the supplementary file of González-Casarrubios et al. (2023).

How to measure and deposit the data

1. First of all, check González-Casarrubios et al. (2023) which describes how and where kinorhynchs should be measured.

2. Download the standard template for measurement from here as an Excel file or the supplementary file of González-Casarrubios et al. (2023). A .csv template file is also available from here.

3. Measure your kinorhynch specimen(s) and put the morphometric data for each individual(s) to the template. See below for an example of how to fill out the template.
   Please do not delete any columns in the template, even if the species does not have some characters. Such columns/cells should be left blank.
   (example) Dracophyes cepedai

4.  Save the file as .xls/.xlsx/.csv format with the name “Genus_species_measurements".

5. Send the file(s) to Alberto González-Casarrubios or Hiroshi Yamasaki (the contact e-mail addresses are below), then we'll update your data to the database.

Both published/unpublished data is welcome to be submitted.
However, If possible, we recommend that the data be published in a scientific publication first (e.g., as a usual table or as a supplementary file) and then deposited to the database.
If you wish to deposit unpublished data, we recommend providing the information (e.g., name and affiliation) of the person who made the measurements, in addition to the morphometric data.

Contact  (change [at] to @)

• Alberto González-Casarrubios: albert23 [at] ucm.es 

• Hiroshi Yamasaki: h.yamasaki [at] meiobenthos.com

Citation

If you use the information of this database in your study and publish it, please cite as:

González-Casarrubios, A. and Yamasaki, H. (2022) Kinorhyncha Measurement Database. Accessed at https://sites.google.com/a/meiobenthos.com/laboratory/database/kinorhyncha-measurement-database on DD MM YYYY.