MOESM1 of Progress and perspectives in the discovery of polychaete worms (Annelida) of the world

Additional file 1: Table S1. The details of data selection conducted before analyses. Table S2. Data selection from WoRMS for the present analyses. Figure S1. Cumulative number of errant (red dots) and sedentary (black dots) polychaete species described over time. Figure S2. The least squares piecewise regression analysis. From the point of view of minimising the squared error between the correlation line and data (Fig. 2c), the middle of the 19th century was identified as the period from where the number of species described per author began to decrease. Prior to that period, there is not enough evidence to identify a trend. Figure S3. The number of polychaete (black triangles and line) and non-polychaete (red dots and line) species described by the 25 most prolific first authors during their publication lifetime. Figure S4. The number of non-polychaete species described by the 14 most prolific polychaete first authors over time. The red line is a three-year moving average