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

[taxacom3 at achapman.org]

Thanks Brian - that is my mistake - completely unforgiveable and probably due to not being able to read my own writing!  It wasn't Archaea at all but a Protozoan group I put in the wrong place.  The last half of that sentence should be deleted.

Apologies!

Arthur D. Chapman
 
>From "B.J.Tindall" <bti at dsmz.de> on 7 Jan 2007:

> 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 Euz�by'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://rd.mailshell.com/www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/publications/o> ther/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://rd.mailshell.com/www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/publications/o> ther/species-numbers/index.html. 
> >
> >
> >Arthur D. Chapman
> >Toowoomba, Australia
> >
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