CABI Bioscience
(incorporating IMI) maintain, either solely or in association with
others, a number of internationally important databases; here you
can search these databases.
The Index Fungorum, the world database
of fungal names coordinated and supported by the Index
Fungorum Partnership, contains names of fungi (including yeasts,
lichens, chromistan fungi, protozoan fungi and fossil forms) at
species level and below. Funding from GBIF
(2003-2004) under the ECAT work programme will enable the addition
of all missing author citations and year of publication and the
linking of all homotypic names. New names from the Index
of Fungi, compiled by CABI Bioscience and published
by CABI
Publishing, are added every three months.
The Bibliography
of Systematic Mycology provides a survey of the literature encompassing
the biodiversity, classification, distribution, evolution, identification,
nomenclature, phylogeny, systematics and taxonomy of fungi (as defined
in the previous paragraph). You can search
the database using the index of cited generic names or author
names.
The
Dictionary of the Fungi (currently 9th edition, 2001) published
by CABI Publishing also contains the current consensus on
the fungal taxonomic hierarchy to the rank of genus. Here you can
search the database for the status
of generic names, or walk down the hierarchy from the rank of Kingdom.
The entries for each genus generally include authors and place of
publication together with the type species (linked to Index Fungorum)
and other data. A database of family
names which includes authors, place of publication and type
genus (linked to the Dictionary of the Fungi hierarchy) is now supplemented
by one which contains names at all supra-familial ranks although
it is far from completion.
CABI Bioscience is presently coordinating the fungal component
of the Species
2000 project and its contribution, in partnership with ITIS,
to the Catalogue of Life (currently used in the GBIF
portal); for more information regarding this global initiative visit
their website. You may search here a small but growing number of
taxonomically complete datasets - global
species databases. Please contact Paul
Kirk if you you would like to contribute.
All these databases need to be improved and updated in terms of
data content. Please contact Paul
Kirk if you have any additions or suggested changes (which will
be acknowledged). The database structures have been developed by
Jerry Cooper and Paul Kirk and the web interface by Jerry Cooper.
Please contact Jerry Cooper
if you have any problems with pages or database searches.
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