BioNames

[Roderic D. M. Page]

Hi all,

I'm going to take this opportunity for some blatant self promotion. Over the last few weeks I have been rebuilding https://bionames.org. This project has been running since 2013, and attempts to match taxonomic names (ICZN only, so animals, microsporidians, and some other odds and sods) to the primary literature. The dream is every animal name linked to a DOI for its original publication, ideally with a freely accessible PDF.

As of today, I have a little under 5.5 million names, of which 4.5 million are unique, and half a million of those names are linked to a DOI. A little under 300K names are linked to a PDF.

The website takes the minimal information that ION makes available via LSIDs (Life Science Identifiers, remember those?) and matches that to sources such as CrossRef, BHL, and numerous other sources.

If plants or fungi are your thing, I have less well developed versions for those taxa, although the problem there is different (zoologists tend to cite articles, botanists and mycologists cite pages). If there is interest I could endeavour to make those avalable as well.

BioNames will win no prizes for interface design, if you want to dive in then https://bionames.org/path/k__Animalia might be a good place to start.

Regards,

Rod

[Thomas Pape]

Hi Rod,

 

Thanks, this looks like a very useful resource.

One minor thing: The silhouette image for “Acanthocephala” shows a true bug of the genus Acanthocephala (Heteroptera: Coreidae) and should be replaced with one of those parasites known as thorny-headed worms.

 

Regards,

Thomas

 

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Natural History Museum Denmark

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[Roderic D. M. Page]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks! I've created an issue to remind myself to fix this https://github.com/rdmpage/bionames-two/issues/1

There are a few cases where the code I used to grab images from Phylopic has been fooled by homonyms.

Regards,

Rod

[Tony Rees]

Thanks, Rod. I'm all for self promotion if it leads me to note resources or updates I might otherwise have missed, that might prove useful in the future! After all, that is why we give talks at conferences, write papers and blog posts, etc. etc. Cross promotion / independent recommendation of the work of others is also good - which is why I would commend to all or most interested parties to follow Rod's more "reflective", but no less useful on occasion, self promotion (and other) activities as recorded at https://iphylo.blogspot.com/ , subtitled "Rants, raves (and occasionally considered opinions) on phyloinformatics, taxonomy, and biodiversity informatics". Onwards and upwards, Rod...

Regards to all - Tony

Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia

www.irmng.org (spot the self promotion!!)

https://about.me/TonyRees

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[Tony Rees]

OK - one advantage of this new forum may well be the ability to embed images in posts - let's try!! My own self promotion here...

The stats on species are somewhat static, as these were mainly entered more than 10-15 years ago and have generally not been touched since (no longer a focus of the project - as per the project name in fact).

The initial portion of the genera list (which covers "all life") looks like this:

"We" (myself plus small edit team) are still active in adding new content, and maintaining/updating/upgrading, content on the "genera" section. If there are persons on this list also interested in contributing (especially concerning the >100k presently "unassessed" genus names, mostly requiring taxonomic assessment plus assignment to current families), please get in touch... (note, the "unassessed" Hoser names are conceptually separate from that batch, they are retained as placeholders until the relevant community decides which to accept and which not to, a discussion for another time and place no doubt).

Regards - Tony

Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia

www.irmng.org

https://about.me/TonyRees

[Roderic D. M. Page]

Tony,

Oh come on! TAXACOM wouldn’t be TAXACOM if we weren’t discussing Hoser’s names, whether humans and orang-utans are sister taxa,  panbiogeography, and should the gender of genus and species names agree or not? ;)

Rod

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