Individual unique colour patterns of the pronotum of Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) allow for photographic identification methods (PIM)

Towards more compassionate wildlife research through the 3Rs principles: moving from invasive to non-invasive methods

“…Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins Tursiops aduncus (Gomez-Salazar et al 2011, Bichell et al 2018, sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus (Alessi et al 2014), Asian black bears Ursus thibetanus (Higashide et al 2012), polar bears Ursus maritimus (Anderson et al 2007), Australian sea lions Neophoca cinerea (Osterrieder et al 2015), cougars Puma concolor (Alexander and Gese 2018), tigers Panthera tigris (Karanth et al 2006), cheetahs Acinonyx jubatus (Kelly 2001), giant pandas Ailuropoda melanoleuca (Zheng et al 2016), salamanders, Eurycea tonkawae, Ambystoma opacum and Salamandrina perspicillata (Gamble et al 2008, Bendik et al 2013, Romiti et al 2017, crustaceans Rhynchocinetes typus and Chionoecetes opilio (Gallardo-Escarate et al 2007, Gosselin et al 2007, manatees Trichechus manatus latirostris (Langtimm et al 2004), Majorcan midwife toads Alytes muletensis (Pinya and Perez-Mellado 2009), common European vipers Vipera berus (Bauwens et al 2018), green sea turtles Chelonia mydas (Gatto et al 2018), wunderpus octopuses Wunderpus photogenicus (Huffard et al 2008), little brown bats Myotis lucifugus (Amelon et al 2017), jewelled geckos Naultinus gemmeus (Knox et al 2013), newts Ichthyosaura alpestris and Lissotriton vulgaris (Mettouris et al 2016), and even beetles Lucanus cervus, Rosalia alpina and Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Caci et al 2013, Romiti et al 2017, Diaz-Calafat et al 2018.…”

“…,Meekan et al 2006, Auger-Methe et al 2011, Martin-Smith 2011, Correia et al 2014, Monteiro et al 2014, Gonzalez-Ramos et al 2017, Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins Tursiops aduncus (Gomezelled geckos Naultinus gemmeus(Knox et al 2013), newts Ichthyosaura alpestris and Lissotriton vulgaris(Mettouris et al 2016), and even beetles Lucanus cervus, Rosalia alpina and Rhynchophorus ferrugineus(Caci et al 2013, Romiti et al 2017, Diaz-Calafat et al 2018). …”

Robust Re-identification of Manta Rays from Natural Markings by Learning Pose Invariant Embeddings

“…Matching natural patterns has been approached by exhaustively generating two-dimensional affine transformations based on user provided key points and comparing each transformation of a candidate example with the examples stored in a repository [7], [8], [9], [10]. The algorithm was implemented in a solution called APHIS (Automated Photo-Identification Suite) and applied for re-identification of lizards [7], arthropods [8], spotted raggedtooth sharks [9] and turtle flippers [10]. However, the method requires a user to select key points and identify the most distinctive spots for each image.…”

“…In practice, these constraints limit the use of photos from citizen scientists and some marine biologists still do the identification manually using a handcrafted decision tree. A common idea that has been applied to several species for recognizing individual animals is to search for an affine transformation matching patterns present in two distinct images (lizards [7], arthropods [8], sharks [9], turtles [10]). However, this approach requires annotating body landmarks on each individual image in the same order.…”

Individual photographic identification based on unique colour pattern of the thorax of Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)

“…However, only a few studies used photo-identification with invertebrates. Some of these studies applied it in octopuses (HUFFARD et al, 2008), starfishes (CHIM & TAN, 2012), sea cucumbers (RAJ, 1998), crustaceans (FRISCH & HOBBS, 2007) or insects (DÍAZ-CALAFAT et al, 2018).…”