[Taxacom] ZooBank website

[Pape, Thomas]

I have the same experience and apparently there are errors in the database structure linking species names with author names.

It should be noted that the ZooBank prototype is based on Thomson Zoological's "Index of Organism Names" and thus essentially will display information from Zoological Record (until 1978).

A new version ZooBank will have an interface for voluntary submission of animal names, yet I think we are still very far from having "a complete, authoritative, record of all scientific names of animals" as envisioned on the ZooBank homepage. The key word here is peer review, which still has to be built into a submission system.

Thomas Pape
Natural History Museum of Denmark


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From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Torbjørn Ekrem
Sent: 5. september 2006 09:42
To: Bob Mesibov
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Subject: Re: [Taxacom] ZooBank website

I agree, great tool.
It seems, however, that several taxa of my favorite group (Diptera: 
Chironomidae) have incorrect authors and dates, and in some cases the authors names are even missing. Coincidence or children's disease? It would be interesting to hear if you have the same experience with other taxonomic groups.

Torbjørn

Dr. Torbjørn Ekrem
Museum of Natural History and Archaeology Norwegian University of Science and Technology
NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
Tel: +47 73 59 78 12

Email: Torbjorn.Ekrem at vm.ntnu.no
Web: www.ntnu.no/~torbjoe



Bob Mesibov skrev:
> I may have missed a recent TAXACOM discussion on this topic, but the 
> new ZooBank website seems to be very nicely organised and easy to use:
>
> http://www.zoobank.org
>
> I road-tested it with a few taxon names and got quick and accurate answers. 
> Great tool!
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