In the Catalogue of Life, 30th April 2012
There is a new global checklist from ITIS:
Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomeloidea - Chrysomelidae - (subfamily) Cassidinae (New!)Two taxonomic databases have been updated:
• GCC: Global Compositae Checklist
• SysMyr: Systematic Myriapod Database
Apology:
The Catalogue of Life Around the Year still operates with user interface 1.6. Please accept our apology for any possible inconvenience.
In the Catalogue of Life, 15th March 2012
The Catalogue of Life assembly procedures have been switched to the CoL Workbench environment from the beginning of February 2012.One taxonomic database has been updated:
• LepIndex provides a new version of synonymised taxonomic checklist for Lepidoptera. Due to synonymisation, total number of provisionally accepted species has been reduced from 242,993 to 143,130. This also caused reduction in Catalogue of Life species number for 1.3M.
In the Catalogue of Life, 3rd February 2012 (= 2012 Annual Checklist)
There are five new taxonomic databases:
• ChenoBase: World Species List of Chenopodiaceae
• CilCat: The World Ciliate Catalog
• EbenaBase: World Species List of Ebenaceae
• Umbellifers: World Umbellifer Database
• WoRMS Hydrozoa: World Hydrozoa Database
Eleven taxonomic databases have been updated:
• AnnonBase: World Species List of Annonaceae
• ELPT: Early Land Plants Today (liverworts and hornworts)
• FishBase (2nd update in a year)
• FWCrabs: Neotropical Freshwater Crabs Catalogue
• GCC: Global Compositae Checklist
• Odonata: Global Species Database Odonata
• Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database (2nd update in a year)
• Tineidae NHM: Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae (Lepidoptera)
• TITAN: Cerambycidae database
• WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
• ZOBODAT Vespoidea: Zoological-Botanical Database (Vespoidea)
Other changes:
• ITIS database has been split for ITIS Global (with global checklists) and ITIS Regional (with New World checklists of various dates, completeness and geographical coverage)
• Two WoRMS databases, Brachiopoda World Database and Phoronida World Database, are credited separately now
In the Catalogue of Life, 5th December 2011
There are seven new global checklists from WoRMS:
• WoRMS Brachyura: World List of Marine Brachyura
• WoRMS Echinoidea: World Echinoidea Database
• WoRMS Holothuroidea: World List of Holothuroidea
• WoRMS Leptostraca: World Leptostraca Database
• WoRMS Polycystina: World List of Polycystina
• WoRMS Scaphopoda: World List of Scaphopoda
• WoRMS Tanaidacea: World List of Tanaidacea
Nineteen WoRMS checklists have been updated:
• WoRMS Asteroidea: World Asteroidea Database
• WoRMS Bochusacea: World List of Bochusacea
• WoRMS Brachiopoda: World Brachiopoda Database
• WoRMS Brachypoda: World List of Brachypoda
• WoRMS Bryozoa: World Marine Bryozoa Database
• WoRMS Cumacea: World Cumacea Database
• WoRMS Isopoda: World List of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans
• WoRMS Mystacocarida: World List of Mystacocarida
• WoRMS Nemertea: World List of Nemertea
• WoRMS Oligochaeta: World List of Marine Oligochaeta
• WoRMS Ophiuroidea: World Ophiuroidea Database
• WoRMS Phoronida: World Phoronida Database
• WoRMS Polychaeta: World Polychaeta Database
• WoRMS Porifera: World Porifera Database
• WoRMS Proseriata and Kalyptorhynchia: World database of Proseriata & Kalyptorhynchia
• WoRMS Remipedia: World Remipedia Database
• WoRMS Tantulocarida: World List of Tantulocarida
• WoRMS Thermosbaenacea: World List of Thermosbaenacea
• WoRMS Xenoturbellida
In the Catalogue of Life, 24th October 2011
There is a new taxonomic database:
• Global Strepsiptera Database by J. Kathirithamby.
Eleven taxonomic databases have been updated:
• 3i Cicadellinae,
• 3i Typhlocybinae,
• BdelloideaBase (former CunaxidBase; new family Bdellidae has been added),
• BlattodeaSF (trial upload),
• CIPA,
• Conifer Database (new release),
• COOL,
• FLOW,
• Nomen.eumycetozoa.com,
• Psyl'list,
• World Gracillariidae.
Apology:
The CoL assembly process continues to be in transition from "old" to "new" base schema and data processing software. Due to these major changes, some data may appear in a raw form or even not be displayed in present interface version. We apologize for any possible inconvenience.
In the Catalogue of Life, 26th July 2011
There is a new taxonomic database:
• MELnet: Melastomataceae.Net database by S.S. Renner & al.
Thus, CoL of July 2011 celebrates an arrival of 100th database.
New global checklists from ITIS:
• Animalia - Arthropoda - Maxillopoda - Calanoida - family Aetideidae
• Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - order Mecoptera
• Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Coleoptera - families Bostrichidae, Dytiscidae, Histeridae & Hydraenidae
Six taxonomic databases have been updated:
• FishBase,
• LIAS,
• Scarabs,
• Conifer Database (additional references),
• SpmWeb,
• ITIS (superfamily Buprestoidea and family Tetratomidae from Coleoptera)
Other improvements:
• Accepted names and synonyms passed additional cleanings in the database
In the Catalogue of Life, 3rd January 2011
There are 15 new taxonomic databases:
• 3i Cicadellinae by D. Takiya & D. Dmitriev
• 3i Typhlocybinae by D. Dmitriev
• Embioptera Species File Online (ESF) by M. Maehr
• Membracoidea of the World Database (MOWD) by S. McKamey
• Spider Mites Web (SpmWeb) by A. Migeon & F. Dorkeld
• WoRMS Asteroidea by C.L. Mah
• WoRMS Bochusacea by G.A. Boxshall
• WoRMS Brachypoda by G.A. Boxshall
• WoRMS Isopoda by M. Schotte, C.B. Boyko, N.L. Bruce, G.C.B. Poore, S. Taiti, G.D.F. Wilson (eds)
• WoRMS Mystacocarida by G.A. Boxshall
• WoRMS Nemertea by J.L. Norenburg
• WoRMS Polychaeta by G. Read & K. Fauchald
• WoRMS Remipedia by S. Koenemann, M. Hoenemann & T. Stemme (eds)
• WoRMS Tantulocarida (families Basipodellidae, Deoterthridae, Doryphallophoridae, Microdajidae) by G.A. Boxshall
• WoRMS Thermosbaenacea by G. Poore
Updates in ITIS sectors:
• ITIS phylum Sipuncula replaces data previously provided by URMO.
Following ITIS sectors have also been updated:• Animalia - Arthropoda - Maxillopoda - Calanoida - family Aetideidae (World checklist)
• Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Coleoptera - family Sphaeriusidae
• Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Coleoptera - Cucujoidea - family Corylophidae (N. American checklist)
• Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionoidea - families Mycetophagidae & Tetratomidae (N. American checklists)
• Animalia - Chordata - Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae - species Vulpes vulpes
Other improvements:
ILDIS common names records have been atomized by names, languages and countries of usage.
In the Catalogue of Life, 2nd October 2010
There are three new taxonomic databases:
• CunaxidBase: Family Cunaxidae Database by J. den Heyer.
• LIAS: A Global Information System for Lichenized and Non-Lichenized Ascomycetes by G. Rambold as the lead editor (LIAS database replaces the lichen taxa previously provided by Species Fungorum).
• WoRMS Bryozoa: World Marine Bryozoa Database by P. Bock & D. Gordon (WoRMS Bryozoa replaces the bryozoan taxa previously provided by ITIS).
Four taxonomic databases have been updated:
• Lacistemataceae Holistic Database
• SalticidDB
• World Scarabaeidae Database
• WTaxa
Additional data has been contributed:
• Aljos Farjon (Conifer Database) contributed over 4,000 new Conifer common names in 20 languages as a result of his 4D4Life pilot project.
• Paul Schoolmeesters (Scarabs database) contributed 11,720 new species from the family Melolonthidae as a result of his 4D4Life pilot project.
New feature:
A full list of citations for the contributing databases, using the recommended style, is now available from the how to cite page at www.catalogueoflife.org/col/info/cite. These may be used for copying & pasting such citations.
In the Catalogue of Life, 1st July 2010
Eight taxonomic databases have been updated:
• Aphid Species File,
• Blattodea Species File,
• Conifer Database,
• Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae,
• Orthoptera Species File,
• Phasmida Species File,
• Plecoptera Species File,
• Mantodea Species File
The following bugs have been fixed:
• Missing order names in some ITIS sectors returned back.
• 175 ITIS family names have been misplaced in superfamily field in AC10. Corrected in this version.
• 52,654 empty infraspecific marker values caused the problem with species and infraspecific taxa statistics in AC10. Problem fixed in this version.
• 33,017 missing common names have been returned back to the database.
• Position of the family Poaceae in the classification have been corrected.
• Redundant phylum name Hepatophyta has been deleted. All liverworts species are placed in the phylum Marchantiophyta.
• Few duplications in species authorstrings have been fixed.
Changes in the management classification:
• Phylum name "Ectoprocta" has been changed to "Bryozoa" in response to request from Dennis Gordon (22 July 2010)