Taxon lists for DiversityMobile

The IBF project/ DiversityMobile (smartphone app, app for Tablet PCs), the German Barcode of Life (=GBOL) project as well as other biodiversity research projects depend on national/ regional species checklists/ taxon reference lists. Such lists can be managed by DiversityTaxonNames (=DTN) databases in a Diversity Workbench (= DWB) environment.

Species checklists/ taxon reference lists are essential as underlying standard lists (backbones) for presentation services and (search) interfaces (e. g. as scroll lists). They are needed as dynamic service (database views and exports, web services) and as non-dynamic exports in various schemas and formats for external local database applications.

DTN taxon lists might be created (a) by direct import from tab separated list files in the DWB environment, (b) by using the freely available (global) name thesauri e. g. via web services of Catalogue of Life (CoL) and IndexFungorum to create a taxon list in DTN or, (c) by adding the relevant list information to the global nomenclators and species databases already available as project in a DTN database of any DWB environment (e.g. GBIFnomenmyx, LIASnames, MELnames, MSWnames in the DWB environment of the SNSB, and UBTgallnames in the open TNT environment).

The existing DTN taxon lists in the context of IBF, LIAS and GBOL are built by either the method (a) or (c). They rely on expert taxonomists (= list curators) who collect information from published resources as national checklists and taxonomic thesauri as the "Global Species Databases" from the Catalogue of Life initiative (GSDs).

The content of DTN taxon lists has to be continuously updated. The list curators will be responsible for managing that data preferably by using the DTN .Net clients on their desktops.

Additions and corrections are welcome and might be sent to the respective list curators or to the persons responsible for the common taxonomy of major initiatives or projects like LIAS and GBOL.

To document the content of the lists currently used in the IBF, LIAS and GBOL context and enlarge the acceptance within the project communities they will be accessible for open and free download as csv, xls, xml files via the GBOL portal, the GBIF-D portal and the DiversityMobile Wiki.

The DTN taxon lists do not compete against commented reference checklists/ red lists etc., published e. g. by the Bundesamt für Naturschutz as regular citable and copyrighted publications. They are non-commented outputs of a relational database system.

Animalia varia - DTN taxon lists

Organisms covered	Country/ region covered	DTN List number of taxa	DTN List Resource name	DTN List curators	DTN List release date	Downloads (csv, xls, xml)
Arachnida ["Rest", exkl. Araneae, Pseudoscorpiones]	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Arachnida_DE		3	3
Pseudoscorpiones	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Pseudoscorpiones_DE	Björn Rulik	3	3
Araneae	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Araneae_DE	Dr. Hubert Höfer	3	3
Chilopoda	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Chilopoda_DE	Dr. Thomas Wesener	3	3
Diplopoda	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Diplopoda_DE	Dr. Thomas Wesener	3	3
Symphyla	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Symphyla_DE	?	3	3
Pauropoda	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Pauropoda_DE	?	3	3
Malacostraca	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Malacostraca_DE	?	3	3
Eumalacostraca	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Eumalacostraca_DE	?	3	3
Heterotardigrada	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Heterotardigrada_DE	?	3	3

Insecta - DTN taxon lists

Organisms covered	Country/ region covered	DTN List number of taxa	DTN List Resource name	DTN List curators	DTN List release date	Downloads (csv, xls, xml)
Orthoptera (Grashoppers)	Germany	88	TaxRef_SNSB_Orthoptera_DE	S. Ingrisch, H. Schott	3	3
Collembola	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Collembola_DE	?	3	3
Neuroptera	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Neuroptera_DE	?	3	3
Coleoptera	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Coleoptera_DE	Dr. Dirk Ahrens	3	3
Diptera	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Diptera_DE	Björn Rulik	3	3
Ephemeroptera	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Ephemeroptera_DE	?	3	3
Auchenorrhyncha	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Auchenorrhyncha_DE	Björn Rulik	3	3
Heteroptera	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Heteroptera_DE	Dr. Carsten Morkel	3	3
Mecoptera	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Mecoptera_DE	?	3	3
Phthiraptera	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Phthiraptera_DE	?	3	3
Psocoptera	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Psocoptera_DE	?	3	3
Raphidioptera	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Raphidioptera_DE	?	3	3
Saltatoria	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Saltatoria_DE	?	3	3
Siphonaptera	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Siphonaptera_DE	?	3	3
Strepsiptera	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Strepsiptera_DE	?	3	3
Thysanoptera	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Thysanoptera_DE	?	3	3
Trichoptera	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Trichoptera_DE	?	3	3
Zoraptera	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Zoraptera_DE	?	3	3

Vertebrata - DTN taxon lists

Organisms covered	Country/ region covered	DTN List number of taxa	DTN List Resource name	DTN List curators	DTN List release date	Downloads (csv, xls, xml)
Amphibia	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Amphibia_DE	Dr. Dennis Rödder	3	3
Reptilia	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Reptilia_DE	Dr. Dennis Rödder	3	3
Aves	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Aves_DE	Dr. Renate van den Elzen	3	3
Mammalia	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Mammalia_DE	Dr. Rainer Hutterer	3	3
"Pisces et Cyclostomata"	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Pisces_DE	Dr. Matthias Geiger	3	3

Fungi and Lichens - DTN taxon lists

Organisms covered	Country/ region covered	DTN List number of taxa	DTN List resource name	DTN List curators	DTN List release date	Downloads (csv, xls, xml)
Powdery mildews	Germany	?	TaxRef_LIAS_Erys_DE	K. Bensch	3	3
Lichens	Germany	?	TaxRef_LIAS_Lichens_DE	W. von Brackel, ? P. Scholz, D. Triebel	3	3
Lichen-associated fungi	Germany	?	TaxRef_LIAS_LichFungi_DE	W. von Brackel, D. Triebel	3	3
Lichens	United Kingdom	?	TaxRef_LIAS_Lichens_UK	D. Triebel	3	3
Lichen-associated fungi	United Kingdom	?	TaxRef_LIAS_LichFungi_UK	D. Triebel	3	3
Ascomycetes - higher classification	-	?	TaxRef_LIAS_Myconet	T. H. Lumbsch, D. Triebel	3	3

Myxomycetes - DTN taxon lists

Organisms covered	Country/ region covered	DTN List number of taxa	DTN List Resource name	DTN List curators	DTN List release date	Downloads (csv, xls, xml)
Slime moulds	Germany	380	TaxRef_SNSB_Myxomycetes_DE	? A. Kuhnt, ? M. Schnittler	3	3

Plants - DTN taxon lists

Organisms covered	Country/ region covered	DTN List number of taxa	DTN List Resource name	DTN List curators	DTN List release date	Downloads (csv, xls, xml)
Vascular plants	Germany	?	TaxRef_BfN_VPlants	W. Ahlmer, S. Klotz	3	3
Pteridophytes (= horsetails, ferns, club mosses, quillworts)	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Pteridophyta_DE	? J. Heinrichs, ? M. Nebel	3	3
Liverworts	Germany	291	TaxRef_GBOL_Liverworts_DE	? J. Heinrichs, ? M. Nebel	3	3
Hornworts	Germany	?	TaxRef_GBOL_Hornworts_DE	? J. Heinrichs, ? M. Nebel	3	3

Plant galls - DTN taxon lists

Organisms covered	Country/ region covered	DTN List number of taxa	DTN List Resource name	DTN List curators	DTN List release date	Downloads (csv, xls, xml)
Plant gall inducing organisms	Germany	c. ?	TaxRef_UBT_Galls_DE	G. Rambold, A. Guhr	3	3

DTN databases in the DWB virtual server environment "TNT"

There are DTN databases (with name projects and DTN taxon lists) for each major organism group in the DWB virtual server environment "TNT". The DTN taxon lists are accessible for web applications, e. g. through the DWB web editor for GBOL. list curators will have access to edit names data.

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