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Updates to this page are on hold. For information about Data Sources, Contributors, and Stewards from August 2002 and prior, see the text below. Data Sources, Contributors and StewardsFor summary of the status of data in ITIS, please see the ITIS Data Status Summary Table. Amphibians - ITIS is current for North American species based upon the USGS Biological Resources Division's unpublished and expanded update of the 1987 Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada, and additional information provided by Roy McDiarmid, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, and Darrel Frost, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, the ITIS stewards for amphibians. ITIS has also integrated a list of Mexican amphibians, contributed by Mexico's Comision Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO http://www.conabio.gob.mx), based on the following reference:
Amphipods - John Holsinger, Department of Biological Sciences
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, is compiling a database of amphipod
crustaceans in the families Crangonyctidae and Hadziidae
Ants/parasitoid wasps - ITIS is current for ant species and subspecies of the world as of July 2001 based on data provided by Norman F. Johnson, Department of Entomology, Museum of Biological Diversity, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. Norm has also provided a world list of parasitoid wasp species of the superfamily Ceraphronoidea. This is the first of three parasitoid wasp superfamilies (Proctotuproidea and Platygasteroidea forthcoming) to be provided, supported by a grant to Norm from the National Science Foundation PEET Program. Ant and parasitoid wasp data are from the source: http://atbi.biosci.ohio-state.edu:8880/hymenoptera/nomenclator.home_page. Beetles (Coleoptera) - ITIS is processing data for North American beetle lists that were provided by Margaret Thayer, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois. Margaret is the ITIS steward and has coordinated the work of many Coleopterists for ITIS. Birds - ITIS has been fully updated for the
world taxonomy of birds based upon modifications and updates of Sibley
and Monroe's Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World, to
reflect as faithfully as possible the American Ornithologists'
Union's Checklist of North American Birds, 7th ed.,
1998, and the USGS Biological Resources Division's unpublished and expanded
update of the 1987 Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States,
the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Alan Peterson, Walla Walla, Washington
Cephalopods (squids, octopuses, etc.) - ITIS has been updated with a world list of cephalopods provided by Mike Sweeney and Clyde Roper, Department of Systematic Biology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, and Mike Vecchione, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, based on the following reference:
Mike Sweeney serves as the ITIS steward for Cephalopods. Copepods - ITIS is current for Mexican freshwater copepods from the following publication, and further input from its authors:
Crocodiles - ITIS is current for the world with data from several sources. Roy McDiarmid, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, serves as the steward for crocodiles. ITIS has also integrated a list of Mexican crocodiles, contributed by Mexico's Comision Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO http://www.conabio.gob.mx), based on the reference mentioned above under Amphibians. Decapoda (crabs, lobsters, shrimp, etc.) - ITIS is current for selected decapod groups based upon the following references:
Diatoms - With assistance from Russell G. Kreis, Jr., US Environmental Protection Agency, Mid-Continent Ecology Division, Grosse Ile, MI, and J. Patrick Kociolek, Executive Director and Hanna Chair & Associate Curator of Diatoms, Invertebrate Zoology & Geology, California Academy of Sciences, ITIS has added a checklist of the diatoms of the Great Lakes, based on the following reference:
Further work to account for other North American species is expected to take place in the future, based on data from Pat and other sources. Diptera (flies, mosquitoes, gnats, bots,
etc.) - ITIS data reflect the 1986 work coordinated by Chris Thompson,
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA Agricultural Research Service,
Washington, DC. Chris Thompson is the ITIS steward for this group and
coordinates the BioSystematic Database of World Diptera with Neal Evenhuis,
Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI. See the Diptera Web site
Ephemeroptera (mayflies) - ITIS has been updated based on Mayfly
Centrals database
Fishes - ITIS is current for North American
freshwater fishes from data provided by Wayne Starnes, North Carolina
State Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, North Carolina, through the
USGS Biological Resources Division's unpublished and expanded update of
the 1987 Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories,
and Canada. Chondricthyes of the world are current in ITIS. Bony fishes
current in ITIS are those represented in Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO) catalogs, with input from Bruce Collette, National Marine Fisheries
Service, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC. Ongoing work to complete and reconcile species lists for
all bony fishes of the world is based upon William Eschmeyer's Catalog
of Fishes work Fungi - Amy Rossman, Agriculture Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland is the current ITIS steward for Fungi, and others are contributing to the development of fungal data for ITIS. Hypogeous fungi (truffles and false truffles) are the first fungal groups to be critically reviewed and updated by North American expert Robert Fogel, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Lichen data is being developed under the guidance of Paula DePriest, Associate Curator, Department of Systematic Biology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Agaric data and various plant pathogen groups will follow. Isopoda (pill bugs, etc.) - ITIS reflects the 1994 version of the World List of Marine and Freshwater Crustacea - Isopoda provided by Brian Kensley and Marilyn Schotte, Department of Systematic Biology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Brian Kensley is the ITIS Steward for Isopods. ITIS has added a world list of terrestrial isopods based on the following works:
Leeches (Hirudinea) - Current data for North American leeches follows the taxonomy of Sawyer (1986):
This information was provided by Donald Klemm, US Environmental Protection
Agency, Cincinnati, OH, and Bill Moser, Department of Systematic Biology,
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
DC. Donald Klemm and Bill Moser are the ITIS stewards for leeches. Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) - An updated list of the butterflies and moths of North America is being developed by a number of cooperators, including Ron Hodges, Paul Opler, John Brown, Don Lafontaine, and many other Lepidoptera specialists. This list will be integrated into ITIS, probably starting with the butterflies. Lichens - The ITIS data steward for lichen
data is Paula DePriest, Associate Curator, Department of Systematic Biology,
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
DC. The current data set was provided cooperatively by Robert Egan, University
of Nebraska at Omaha and Theodore Esslinger, North Dakota State University
Liverworts and hornworts - The data set
for liverworts and hornworts was developed cooperatively by Ray Stotler
and Barbara Crandell-Stotler, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale,
and uploaded from the PLANTS database Lizards - ITIS is current for North American species based primarily on data from the USGS Biological Resources Division's unpublished and expanded update of the 1987 Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada, and additional information provided by Roy McDiarmid, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, who is the steward for lizards. ITIS has also integrated a list of Mexican lizards, contributed by Mexico's Comision Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO, http://www.conabio.gob.mx), based on the reference mentioned above under Amphibians. Mammals - ITIS is current for North American species based upon the USGS Biological Resources Division's unpublished and expanded update of the 1987 Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada, and additional information provided by Alfred Gardner, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. ITIS is currently working through each mammal group, to complete them for the world, based on data from the following primary references:
Dr. Al Gardner is the ITIS steward for North American mammals. Dr. James G. Mead, Department of Systematic Biology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, is ITIS steward for marine mammals. Dr. Don Wilson, also of the Department of Systematic Biology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, is steward for the remaining taxa. Mantophasmatodea - a newly described insect order has been added to ITIS based on the reference:
Millipeds - ITIS has supported the development and loading of a milliped checklist by Richard Hoffman, Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville, VA, that covers North and Middle America, as well as the East and West Indies. This work is now complete in ITIS, based on the following publication:
Mollusks - ITIS has loaded the complete list of mollusk species from the reference below, with assistance from Paul Scott, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California and Alan Peterson, Walla Walla, Washington. Paul Scott is the ITIS steward for mollusks.
Mosses - The reviewed list of mosses within
ITIS was developed cooperatively by Lewis Anderson and Molly McMullen,
Duke University, and uploaded from the PLANTS database
Odonata (dragonflies) - ITIS has been updated with a list of
New World Odonata provided by Rosser W. Garrison, L.A. County Agricultural
Commissioner's Office, Azusa, CA, based on his work on "A Synonymic
List of the New World Odonata"
Oligochaete worms - The ITIS data steward for oligochaetes is
Mark J. Wetzel, Illinois Natural History Survey, Center for Biodiversity,
Champaign, IL. Mark is currently helping to revise ITIS oligochaete data
for North America, and, for some groups, for the World. Updates are expected
on a group by group basis. Mark is working with Dr. John W. Reynolds on
"Nomenclatura Oligochaetologica - Supplementum Quartum. A catalogue
of names, descriptions and type specimens of the Oligochaeta." Plecoptera (stoneflies) - ITIS has updated the stoneflies based
on the North American Stonefly List (version 2/16/01) by Bill P. Stark,
Professor of Biology at Mississippi College, Clinton, MS. See
Polychaete worms - The polychaete hierarchy down to the genus level has been updated in ITIS based upon Fauchald and Rouse (1997):
A complete list of species of Polychaeta for the world is expected to
be provided to ITIS in the future by Kristian Fauchald, Department of
Systematic Biology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC, who is the ITIS steward for polychaetes. Sea anemones, corals, and their allies (excluding Scleractinia,
stony corals) - Dr. Daphne G. Fautin, Division of Biological Sciences,
University of Kansas, is ITIS steward for this group, and is compiling
data to be added to ITIS. A world list of sea anemones of the Order Actiniaria
have been added to ITIS, based on her website Sea Anemones of the World
at Scleractinia (hard or stony corals) - ITIS has loaded the complete world species list for this group based on data provided by Stephen Cairns, Department of Systematic Biology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, as published in the reference:
Snakes - ITIS is current for North American species based primarily on data from the USGS Biological Resources Division's unpublished and expanded update of the 1987 Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada, and for select other species from Snake Species of the World, A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference by R.W. McDiarmid, J.A. Campbell and T.A. Touré (vol. 1 - 1999; vols. 2 and 3 in progress), through Roy McDiarmid, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, who is the steward for snakes. Eventually, all snakes will be included in ITIS. ITIS has also integrated a list of Mexican snakes, contributed by Mexico's Comision Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO), based on the reference mentioned above under Amphibians. Trichoptera (caddisflies) - The ITIS database
has been updated based on the Trichoptera World Checklist of January 2001
Turtles - ITIS is current for the world with data from multiple sources as provided by Roy McDiarmid, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, who is the steward for turtles. ITIS has also integrated a list of Mexican turtles, contributed by Mexico's Comision Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO http://www.conabio.gob.mx), based on the reference mentioned above under Amphibians. Vascular Plants - ITIS reflects North American
plant species based upon the cooperative work of John Kartesz, Biota of
North America Program, North Carolina Botanical Garden, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the PLANTS database
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