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

[B.J.Tindall]

Dear Arthur,
Okay, you are forgiven. Apart from that the text 
gives a realistic impression of the big gap 
between the current number of names/named taxa 
and the numbers that we predict/guess may be out there.
Brian

At 09:06 08.01.07, taxacom3 at achapman.org wrote:
>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/biodiv 
> ersity/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/biodiv 
> ersity/abrs/publications/o> ther/species-numbers/index.html.
> > >
> > >
> > >Arthur D. Chapman
> > >Toowoomba, Australia
> > >
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