Database details
| Full name: | Species Fungorum |
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| Short name: | Species Fungorum |
| Version: | 8.0. Sep 2008 |
| Release date: | 2008-09-05 |
| Authors/editors: | P.M. Kirk |
| Taxonomic coverage: | Fungi (diverse taxa) Chromista - Hyphochytriomycota, Labyrinthulomycota, Oomycota Protozoa - Acrasiomycota, Dictyosteliomycota (pro parte), Plasmodiophoromycota |
| English name of the group: | Fungi; protozoan fungi; chromistan fungi |
| Number of species: | 40,468 |
| Number of infraspecific taxa: | 1,687 |
| Number of synonyms: | 73,817 |
| Number of common names: | 918 |
| Total number of names: | 116,890 |
| Abstract: | The Index Fungorum (maintained by the Index Fungorum Partnership) is the global nomenclatural database for fungi (Fungi, chromistan fungi, protozoan fungi) and contains over 380,000 names at the rank of species and below. Some names in this database comprise the Species Fungorum component from CABI Bioscience and are identified as the correct name for a taxon or as a synonym. The names of about 34,000 species (plus 65,000 synonyms) of mainly economically important fungi in groups that are not yet covered globally in other GSDs are included. Species Fungorum aspires to be a global checklist of the fungi and provides links to sources of additional information (descriptions, illustrations, on-line identification systems) where these are available. |
| Organization: | CABI |
| Website: |
http://www.speciesfungorum.org |