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Taxon list of fungi and fungal-like organisms from Germany compiled by the DGfM

(TaxRefCode: TaxRef_DGfM_Fungi_DE, Projects_TNT ID: 1140)


Characteristics of the taxon list

  • Number of species estimated worldwide: more than 5,000,000
  • Number of taxon names below genus level in this list: more than 29,500
  • Synonyms: yes
  • German vernacular names: more than 3,600
  • Higher classification is included.
  • List curator(s): Frank Dämmrich


Technical info

The DTN Taxon lists services concept is described under https://www.diversitymobile.net/wiki/DTN_Taxon_Lists_Services. The taxon lists are offered via several open and freely accessible services with a dynamic data flow involving DTN data bases DTN Software and DTN Information model. A REST API called "DWB REST Webservice for Taxon Lists", shortly "DTNtaxonlists", is developed (Starting page and documentation). The services are offered via the "Taxon-names-and-terms-(TNT)" server at the SNSB IT Center and accessed by the GFBio Terminology Server.


General info

The activities to create and publish regional DTN lists started in 2012 as cooperation between the DiversityMobile/IBF project and GBOL. Since 2014 the initiative was part of the German Federation for Biological Data (=GFBio) project with involvement of the SMNS, SNSB and ZFMK. Starting with 2021 there is a DWB user help desk with support by the NFDI4Biodiversity consortium.


The following organisations and projects are active in supporting curation activities of the Fungi list:


The list should be cited as: Dämmrich, F. (2015 onwards). Taxon list of fungi and fungal-like organisms from Germany compiled by the DGfM. – [accessed e. g. through the DWB REST Webservice for Taxon Lists under https://services.snsb.info/DTNtaxonlists/rest/v0.1/static/api-doc.html or as csv download, 2015-08-12]

The list is offered under Creative Commons License CC BY 4.0.

In parallel, the list is published as GBIF checklist dataset (doi:10.15468/gtvmjw) and available under https://www.gbif.org/dataset/155b33d2-84b1-4a31-9287-9d9e900bc6c8.



Online reference:

Index Fungorum. – http://www.indexfungorum.org.

MycoBank. – http://www.mycobank.org