[Taxacom] 2018 Edition of Catalogue of Life released

[John Grehan]

This is a nice illustration of the mystical nature of taxonomy and
phylogeny. With respect to my group of interest, CoL has chosen to accept a
recent proposal to subsume several former families under another family
(Hepialidae) even though there is no objective rationale to do so (just
preference expressed by authors of one phylogenetic paper).

John Grehan

On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 8:52 PM, Tony Rees <tonyrees49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Taxacomers,
>
> As a (new) CoL contributor, I am just letting you know that the 2018
> Edition of the Catalogue of Life has just been released at
> http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col . Content that is new for this release
> (including from the IRMNG database, for which I am largely responsible at
> present) is listed here: http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/info/special
>
> The inclusion of IRMNG data down to genus (not species at this time) allows
> CoL to fill a range of gaps in Protozoa and Chromista for which there are
> currently no other contributing Global Species Databases (GSDs), and may be
> superseded in the future as other sources become available for these
> sectors. Meanwhile I am happy to field any questions regarding the
> classifications used for Protozoa and Chromista in IRMNG at this time,
> which is intended eventually to follow that of Ruggiero et al. (2015) and
> successors, although not yet completely upgraded to follow that treatment.
>
> Regards to all - Tony
>
> Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
> https://about.me/TonyRees
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