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Index Fungorum: the global fungal nomenclator

Index Fungorum: the global fungal nomenclator. Leiden, 2013. Paul M. Kirk RBG Kew / Index Fungorum Partnership. Index Fungorum – the global fungal nomenclator. Names of fungi at all ranks

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Index Fungorum: the global fungal nomenclator

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  1. Index Fungorum: the global fungal nomenclator Leiden, 2013 Paul M. Kirk RBG Kew / Index Fungorum Partnership

  2. Index Fungorum – the global fungal nomenclator • Names of fungi at all ranks • Names of organisms which are not fungi, but which are studied by mycologists (e.g. slime moulds, oomycetes) • Names of organisms which are not studied by mycologist, but which are (possibly) fungi (e.g. microsporidia, cryptomycota) • Fossil forms of all the above (not comprehensive)

  3. Index Fungorum Partnership ... • LCR (New Zealand), RBG Kew, vacant • Conceived at IMC7, Oslo, 2002 • Web Services – the first (February 2002) • GBIF funding and the 40% ECAT target (2005) • GUIDs and LSIDs (from May 2005) • Registration and e-Publication (from 2010 / 2012) • Miscellaneous funding via EU, NSF, etc

  4. Index Fungorum – what it has ... • Most names have author + year; most homotypic names are linked; micro citations missing for many names of lichens • 250k (of c. 450k) names are linked to page image from printed indexes; 120k of these with verbatim original descriptions and c. 75k to page images of the validating protologue (35k are new taxa; others are combinations and new names) • Links to on-line specimen databases for types (c. 3k)

  5. Index Fungorum – and what it hasn’t ... • No taxonomic opinions (no heterotypic synonym); it’s not a checklist, or a monograph • No explicit classifications (except for automatically typified suprageneric names); that included is purely to assist users disambiguate homonyms

  6. IF contributes to / collaborates with ... • the Catalogue of Life via Species Fungorum • the EoL (via Catalogue of Life) and GBIF • the Global Names Architecture (GNUB) • the name registration system approved by the NCF: comprising Fungal Names (CAS: Beijing), IF, and MycoBank (IMA: Netherlands)

  7. The Future ... • Database and web site migration from CABI to Kew • Content mirroring in GNUB • More links, e.g. to BHL content for protologues and, when available, article level data, web accessible digitized fungaria, molecular data for types (?) ... • RSS notification / push content into scratchpads (?) • Fully digital publishing ... the rise of the machines

  8. That’s all folks, thanks for your attention

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