[Taxacom] New Publication: Numbers of Living Species in Austrakia and the World

[B.J.Tindall]

Being a "bacteriologist" I tend to look at 
sections dealing with these organisms. I don't 
have access to the figures quoted by Corliss on 
the number of Archaea (the "prokaryote group" 
rather than the spiders), but there are certainly 
more than 4 described species of Archaea referred 
to on Jean Euzéby's website. The figure is more like 400.
Brian

At 00:18 06.01.07, taxacom3 at achapman.org wrote:
>A publication on the numbers of living species 
>in Australia and the World has just been 
>published by the Australian Department of Environment and Heritage.
>
>The numbers of species has been estimated by 
>collating information from systematists, 
>taxonomic literature, on-line resources and 
>previous compilations.  Estimates for the 
>numbers of published species is given for each 
>large taxonomic grouping for both Australia and 
>the World, along with estimates of the total 
>numbers of species, and the estimated/calculated 
>percentage endemism for Australia.
>
>The publication is available electronically at
>
>http://www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/publications/other/species-numbers/index.html
>
>Bibliographic Information:
>
>Chapman, A.D. (2006). Numbers of living species 
>in Australia and the World. 60pp. Canberra: 
>Australian Biological Resources Study.
>ISBN (printed): 978 0 642 56849 6l
>ISBN (online): 978 0 642 56850 2. 
>http://www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/publications/other/species-numbers/index.html. 
>
>
>Arthur D. Chapman
>Toowoomba, Australia
>
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