Speeding up taxonomy in the digital age: A deep learning approach for identifying cryptic freshwater snails

• Dennis Vetter ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: vetter@em.uni-frankfurt.de

  Affiliations Department of Computer Science, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, The Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI), Darmstadt, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5977-5535

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• Muhammad Ahsan,

  Roles Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Computer Science, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, The Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI), Darmstadt, Germany

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• Diana Delicado,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales CSIC, Madrid, Spain

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• Thomas A. Neubauer,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations SNSB – Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology, Munich, Germany, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology & Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1398-9941

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• Thomas Wilke ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ These authors contributed equally as last authors.

  Affiliations Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, Branch for Bioresources, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, Giessen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8263-7758

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• Gemma Roig

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ These authors contributed equally as last authors.

  Affiliations Department of Computer Science, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, The Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI), Darmstadt, Germany

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