Index Fungorum the global fungal nomenclator Leiden 2013

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 • 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)

Index Fungorum Partnership. . . • LCR (New Zealand), RBG Kew, vacant • Conceived at IMC 7, 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

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

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

IF contributes to / collaborates with. . . • the Catalogue of Life via Species Fungorum • the Eo. L (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 Myco. Bank (IMA: Netherlands)

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

That’s all folks, thanks for your attention