[Taxacom] Atlas of Living Australia public release today

[Peter Stevens]

Perhaps the confusion was caused by Caryota, the fish-tail palm....????


P.
On Nov 1, 2010, at 8:23 AM, <dipteryx at freeler.nl>  
<dipteryx at freeler.nl> wrote:

> Well, keeping Turneraceae separate from Passifloraceae is not so bad,
> as that is what Cronquist did. However, Cronquist placed both these
> families in the order Violales, so for the sake of consistency, that
> placement should be kept here as well (Cronquist obviously did not
> have an order Malpighiales).
>
> Of course it would be possible to switch over entirely to APG II / III
> but in that case a whole lot more work would have to be done (pretty
> much starting over entirely). It looks to me that the main thing is
> that whatever classification is chosen, it should be followed  
> consistently.
>
> [But the whole thing does look very rough, with as the most  
> extravagant
> example the "Aridae (Fork-tailed Catfishes)" substituting for the
> "Arecaceae (palm tree family)" ...]
>
> Paul
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Feuillet, Christian [mailto:FEUILLEC at si.edu]
> Verzonden: ma 1-11-2010 13:22
> Aan: dipteryx at freeler.nl; taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Onderwerp: RE: [Taxacom] Atlas of Living Australia public release  
> today
>
> Working on Passifloraceae, among other things, I checked them on  
> the second link you cited.  Actually it is more of a mess than  
> that, at least in some places.  The Turneraceae are kept separate  
> from the Passifloraceae unlike in APG III. Why not if it is their  
> choice, but its type, Turnera, is in the Passifloraceae, not the  
> Turneraceae!  Just the only thing I looked at. May not be  
> representative of the whole.
>
> Christian
>
> Christian Feuillet
> Department of Botany, MRC-166
> Smithsonian Institution
> P.O. Box 37012
> Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, U.S.A.
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom- 
> bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of dipteryx at freeler.nl
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 1:58 PM
> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Atlas of Living Australia public release today
>
> Something that is quite noticeable is that this site appears to
> be using the Cronquist classification, but these pages
> http://bie.ala.org.au/species/ 
> urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:343065#classification
> http://bie.ala.org.au/species/ 
> urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:347226#classification
>
> label each subclass as "subfamily". Also the hyperlink to each
> "subfamily" does not lead to a listing of the component orders
> as it should. Better correct that ...
>
> Paul
>
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu namens Donald.Hobern at csiro.au
> Verzonden: vr 29-10-2010 1:26
> Aan: TAXACOM at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Onderwerp: Re: [Taxacom] Atlas of Living Australia public release  
> today
>
> Hi Tony.
>
> Thanks for the publicity.  Right now I must emphasise that we are  
> still working on a few final matters and the site is expected still  
> to be changing and intermittently unavailable for a couple of  
> weeks.  I'll circulate a formal announcement when we're through  
> this phase.
>
> The ALA team and partners have been putting enormous effort into  
> this integration project and we will be able to offer many tools  
> and views which I believe will be very useful to Australian  
> researchers and naturalists.  We still have a great deal more we  
> plan to add over the coming months.  Once we are properly up and  
> launched, I would value input from TAXACOM members on priorities  
> for additional content, function and data linkages.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Donald
>
>
> Donald Hobern, Director, Atlas of Living Australia
> CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601
> Phone: (02) 62464352 Mobile: 0437990208
> Email: Donald.Hobern at csiro.au
> Web: http://www.ala.org.au/
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