Catalogue of Life: 2014 Annual Checklist

• CarabCat: Global database of ground beetles*

• FADA Cladocera

• FADA Halacaridae

• GloBIS family Lycaenidae*

• HymIS families Crabronidae and Pompilidae*

• ILDIS for i4Life*

• ITIS Global family Cactaceae

• Lace Bugs Database*

• Microsporidia

• SCaDs: Selected Caryophyllales Databases*

• Scarabs family Lucanidae*

• Tessaratomid Database*

• The White-Files*

• World Ferns

• World Plants

• AnnonBase

• BdelloideaBase

• CCW: Catalogue of Craneflies of the World

• ChenoBase

• Conifer Database

• Dothideomycetes

• EbenaBase

• FishBase

• GCC: Global Compositae Checklist

• Glomeromycota

• ITIS Global

• LDL Neuropterida

• Nomen.eumycetozoa.com

• Phyllachorales

• Rhytismatales

• Saccharomycetes

• Scarabs

• Species Fungorum

• SysMyr

• The Reptile Database

• Trichomycetes

• World Ferns

• World Plants

• Xylariaceae

• Zygomycetes

• 31 WoRMS checklists

• New version of the Annual Checklist interface now shows subgenera as a part of species names in some zoological databases.

• World Ferns (fourth update in a year cycle). All editorial transformations and data assembly have been completed via CoL Workbench templates

• World Plants (fifth update in a year cycle). Editorial transformations and data assembly have been partly completed via CoL Workbench templates and partly by manual process

• ITIS Global (orders Passeriformes, Perissodactyla, Zoraptera and families Dasyuridae & Sciuridae)

• 31 WoRMS checklists have been updated through automated process using CoL Workbench templates

• World Plants added 103 new global checklists for flowering plants (fourth update in a year cycle). Editorial transformations and data assembly have been partly completed via CoL Workbench templates and partly by manual process

• AnnonBase (delivery of i4Life pilot project)

• ChenoBase (delivery of i4Life pilot project)

• EbenaBase (delivery of i4Life pilot project)

• 31 WoRMS checklists have been updated through automated process using CoL Workbench templates

• There are few cases of genera misplacements in families of Magnoliopsida detected at very last minute. The issues will be fixed in the next release.

• Microsporidia: Unicellular spore-forming protozoan parasites

• Nomen.eumycetozoa.com

• World Ferns (third update in a year cycle). All editorial transformations and data assembly have been completed via CoL Workbench templates

• 31 WoRMS checklists have been updated through automated process using CoL Workbench templates

• HymIS families Crabronidae and Pompilidae (deliveries of i4Life pilot projects)

• GloBIS family Lycaenidae (delivery of i4Life pilot project)

• 31 WoRMS checklists have been updated through automated process using CoL Workbench templates

• SCaDs references have been added

• Few fixes in LDL Neuropterida

• CarabCat: Global database of ground beetles by Wolfgang Lorenz (delivery of i4Life pilot project)

• SCaDs: Selected Caryophyllales Databases by Magda Sitko, Alastair Culham & al. (delivery of i4Life pilot project)

• World Ferns (second update in a year cycle). All editorial transformations and data assembly have been completed via CoL Workbench templates

• World Plants added 73 new global checklists for flowering plants (third update in a year cycle). World Plants Rosaceae checklist replaced IOPI Rosaceae. (All editorial transformations and data assembly have been completed via CoL Workbench templates)

• LDL Neuropterida

• 31 WoRMS checklists have been updated through automated process using CoL Workbench templates

• ILDIS for i4Life: additional taxa. (This dataset was created as a delivery of i4Life pilot project. It contains new species, which are complementing ILDIS checklist. In next few years, this dataset will be assimilated in ILDIS database).

• World Plants added 26 new global checklists for flowering plants (second update in a year cycle). All editorial transformations and assembly have been completed via CoL Workbench templates.

• World Plants by Michael Hassler

• Lace Bugs Database by Eric Guilbert (delivery of i4Life pilot project)

• Tessaratomid Database by Philippe Magnien (delivery of i4Life pilot project)

• The White-Files by Jon Martin & David Ouvrard (delivery of i4Life pilot project)

• Conifer Database

• Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database (delivery of i4Life pilot project)

• GCC: Global Compositae Checklist (second update in a year cycle)

• 31 WoRMS checklists have been updated through automated process using CoL Workbench templates

• World Ferns by Michael Hassler. (Data were assembled by V. Didziulis via automated CoL Workbench templates)

• BdelloideaBase

• Dothideomycetes *

• Glomeromycota *

• Phyllachorales *

• Rhytismatales *

• Saccharomycetes *

• Species Fungorum *

• Trichomycetes *

• Xylariaceae *

• Zygomycetes *

• 31 WoRMS checklists have been updated through automated process using CoL Workbench templates

• CCW: Catalogue of Craneflies of the World (delivery of i4Life pilot project)

• GCC: Global Compositae Checklist

• FishBase

• ITIS Global: families Castoridae, Geomyidae & Heteromyidae

• UCD species URLs have been updated

• Global Gracillariidae: metadata have been updated. Database short name changed from World Gracillariidae to Global Gracillariidae

• Family Cactaceae (Plantae – Tracheophyta – Magnoliopsida – Caryophyllales – Cactaceae)

• 31 WoRMS checklists have been updated through automated process using CoL Workbench templates

• Genus Manota was moved to family Mycetophilidae on request of Systema Dipterorum editor

• All provisionally accepted species were taken off from family Rosaceae (IOPI-GPC)

• FADA Cladocera

• FADA Halacaridae

• The Reptile Database (former TIGR Reptile Database)

• 31 WoRMS checklists have been updated through automated process using CoL Workbench templates

• SysMyr

• Scarabs

• BdelloideaBase

• 31 WoRMS checklists have been updated through automated process using CoL Workbench templates

• Catalogue of Life China

• CoreoideaSF: Coreoidea Species File

• FADA Bivalvia: World checklist of freshwater Bivalvia species

• FADA Ephemeroptera: World checklist of freshwater Ephemeroptera species

• FADA Nematomorpha: World checklist of freshwater Nematomorpha species

• FADA Turbellaria: World checklist of freshwater Turbellaria species

• HymIS Rhopalosomatidae: Hymenoptera Information System, Rhopalosomatidae of the world

• ITIS Global (Plantae: families Barbeyaceae, Bataceae, Cephalotaceae, Crossosomataceae, Eucommiaceae, Gerrardinaceae, Koeberliniaceae, Lophopyxidaceae, Montiniaceae, Penthoraceae, Petenaeaceae, Pycnanthaceae, Rhoipteleaceae; Animalia: insect subfamily Cassidinae)

• MolluscaFW: World Checklist of Freshwater Mollusca

• PsocodeaSF: Psocodea Species File

• WoRMS Cestoda: World List of Cestoda*

• WoRMS Chaetognatha: World list of Chaetognatha*

• WoRMS Gastrotricha: World Gastrotricha Database*

• WoRMS Gnathostomulida: World list of Gnathostomulida*

• WoRMS Mollusca: World Marine Mollusca database

• WoRMS Monogenea: World list of Monogenea

• WoRMS Myxozoa: World list of Myxozoa

• WoRMS Placozoa: World Placozoa Database*

• WoRMS Priapulida: World list of Priapulida*

• WoRMS Trematoda: World list of Trematoda*

• AphidSF

• BdelloideaBase

• BlattodeaSF

• EmbiopteraSF (two updates)

• FADA Rotifera

• FishBase (two updates)

• GCC

• GloBIS (GART)

• ICTV/MSL

• ILDIS (two updates)

• ITIS Regional (Tracheophyta)

• LepIndex

• LIAS (two updates)

• MantodeaSF

• MELnet

• OrthopteraSF (two updates)

• PhasmidaSF

• PlecopteraSF (two updates)

• RJB Geranium

• Scarabs (two updates)

• SpidCat via ITIS

• Strepsiptera Database

• SysMyr (three updates)

• WoRMS Asteroidea (9 updates)

• WoRMS Bochusacea (9 updates)

• WoRMS Brachiopoda (9 updates)

• WoRMS Brachypoda (9 updates)

• WoRMS Brachyura (9 updates)

• WoRMS Bryozoa (9 updates)

• WoRMS Chaetognatha (9 updates)

• WoRMS Cumacea (9 updates)

• WoRMS Echinoidea (9 updates)

• WoRMS Gastrotricha (9 updates)

• WoRMS Gnathostomulida (9 updates)

• WoRMS Holothuroidea (9 updates)

• WoRMS Hydrozoa (9 updates)

• WoRMS Isopoda (9 updates)

• WoRMS Leptostraca (9 updates)

• WoRMS Mystacocarida (9 updates)

• WoRMS Nemertea (9 updates)

• WoRMS Oligochaeta (9 updates)

• WoRMS Ophiuroidea (9 updates)

• WoRMS Phoronida (9 updates)

• WoRMS Placozoa (9 updates)

• WoRMS Polychaeta (9 updates)

• WoRMS Polycystina (9 updates)

• WoRMS Porifera (9 updates)

• WoRMS Priapulida (9 updates)

• WoRMS Proseriata and Kalyptorhynchia (9 updates)

• WoRMS Remipedia (9 updates)

• WoRMS Scaphopoda (9 updates)

• WoRMS Tanaidacea (9 updates)

• WoRMS Tantulocarida (9 updates)

• WoRMS Thermosbaenacea (9 updates)

• WoRMS Xenoturbellida (9 updates)

• Plantae classification have been updated following ITIS of September 2012.

• Assembly of CoL proto-GSDs in the phyla Mollusca, Platyhelminthes, Myxosoa, in the class Clitellata (Annelida) and in some flowering plant families has been initiated.

• A new improved version of Lepidoptera checklist from LepIndex caused reduction of species records for 100K.

• AlgaeBase data (31K species) have been removed from the Catalogue of Life at the request of the copyright owner. AlgaeBase data may now be licensed directly from Michael Guiry (michael.guiry@algaebase.org).

• WoRMS Brachyura database replaced FWCrabs regional checklist

• Four new languages have been added in the interface: Russian, Lithuanian, Polish and German.

• CoreoideaSF

• PsocodeaSF

• FADA Bivalvia

• FADA Turbellaria

• MolluscaFW

• WoRMS Myxozoa

• WoRMS Mollusca

• WoRMS Monogenea

• Three new checklists of phylum Chaetognatha, classes Cestoda and Trematoda from WoRMS did replace corresponding URMO datasets. WoRMS Chaetognatha has been processed via CoL Workbench templates.

• AphidSF

• BlattodeaSF

• EmbiopteraSF (second update)

• MantodeaSF

• OrthopteraSF (second update)

• PhasmidaSF

• PlecopteraSF (second update)

• FishBase (second update)

• FADA Ephemeroptera (second update)

• 31 WoRMS checklists have been updated through automated process using CoL Workbench templates (ninth update)

• AlgaeBase data have been removed from the Catalogue of Life at the request of the copyright owner. AlgaeBase data may now be licensed directly from Michael Guiry (michael.guiry@algaebase.org).

• Updates in Plantae classification (phyla and classes) have been completed. Class Liliopsida is kept in the CoL alongside with class Magnoliopsida for data management convenience.

• Polish language has been added in the interface (translation completed by Magda Sitko).

• The Catalogue of Life China contributed a second batch of species from phylum Labyrinthista (Chromista) and class Acantharia (Protozoa), plus flowering plants to fill temporarily gaps in global Catalogue of Life at lower levels of the taxonomic classification (e.g. species, genera). Editorial fine-tuning has been completed by Thomas Kunze, CoL editorial assistant.

• Four new checklists of phyla Gastrotricha, Gnathostomulida, Placozoa and Priapulida from WoRMS did replace corresponding URMO datasets; data have been processed via CoL Workbench templates.

• EmbiopteraSF: Embioptera Species File

• OrthopteraSF: Orthoptera Species File

• 27 WoRMS checklists have been updated through automated process using CoL Workbench templates (eighth update)

• The Catalogue of Life China contributed a first batch of species from animalian classes Crinoidea, Bivalvia, Gastropoda, Adenophorea, Polychaeta, Malacostraca, Maxillopoda and Insecta (order Coleoptera); and from plant phyla Bryophyta & Pteridophyta to fill temporarily gaps in global Catalogue of Life at lower levels of the taxonomic classification (e.g. species, genera).

• LIAS: A Global Information System for Lichenized and Non-Lichenized Ascomycetes (2nd update in a year).

• 27 WoRMS checklists have been updated through automated process using CoL Workbench templates (seventh update)

• FADA Nematomorpha: World checklist of freshwater Nematomorpha species

• FADA Ephemeroptera: World checklist of freshwater Ephemeroptera species

• FADA Rotifera. A new version of Rotifera Database by Hendrik Segers has been taken from FADA project

• FishBase

• PlecopteraSF

• Strepsiptera Database

• 27 WoRMS checklists have been updated through automated process using CoL Workbench templates (sixth update)

• Inactive URLs have been removed from Systema Dipterorum and ILDIS datasets

• Plantae - Pteridophyta (ITIS Regional)

• Plantae - Magnoliophyta - Magnoliopsida - Ericales - Sarraceniaceae - genus Sarracenia (ITIS Regional)

• Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Mantophasmatodea (ITIS Global)

• Animalia - Chordata - Aves (ITIS Global)

• 27 WoRMS checklists have been updated through automated process using CoL Workbench templates (fifth update)

• 21 pairs of species duplicates have been resolved through whole database.

• HymIS Rhopalosomatidae: Hymenoptera Information System, Rhopalosomatidae of the world

• Plantae - Magnoliophyta - Liliopsida - Pycnanthaceae (New!)

• Plantae - Magnoliophyta - Magnoliopsida - Barbeyaceae (New!), Cephalotaceae (New!), Eucommiaceae (New!), Gerrardinaceae (New!), Gesneriaceae, Koeberliniaceae (New!), Lophopyxidaceae (New!), Montiniaceae (New!), Penthoraceae (New!), Petenaeaceae (New!), Rhoipteleaceae (New!).

• 27 WoRMS checklists have been updated through automated process using CoL Workbench templates (fourth update)

• All North American checklists of flowering plants from ITIS have been updated

• Classification of flowering plants has been changed on order level following a new classification from ITIS.

• GloBIS (GART): Global Butterfly Information System

• ILDIS World Database of Legumes (second update: distribution data have been converted into TDWG Level 4 areas)

• Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database (second update)

• SysMyr: Systematic Myriapod Database (third update)

• 27 WoRMS checklists have been updated through automated process using CoL Workbench templates (third update)

• ICTV/MSL: latest taxonomic scrutiny records and presentation of virus genera have been improved

• PhytoseiidBase from MitesGSDs: link to a new website and links to online species pages have been added

• Data provider for family Megascolecidae (Oligochaeta) has been changed back to regional NZIB checklist with on request of Encyclopedia of Life and Thomas Orrell.

• ICTV/MSL: International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses / Master Species List

• ILDIS World Database of Legumes (including 4D4Life life zone information with all species)

• RJB Geranium Taxonomic Information System

• SysMyr: Systematic Myriapod Database (second update)

• 27 WoRMS checklists have been updated through automated process using CoL Workbench templates (second update)

• Lithuanian language has been added in the interface.

• All checklists have been updated through automated process using CoL Workbench templates

• Known bugs in the interface software have been fixed now.

• Russian language has been added in the interface.

• BdelloideaBase: Bdellid & Cunaxid Databases

• SpidCat: The World Spider Catalog. In request of GSD custodian, SpidCat dataset has been taken via ITIS. Database now appears in the Catalogue of Life under a name �SpidCat via ITIS�

Present version of the interface contains two bugs: statistics and credits are not displayed correctly in the tree. Multilingual option has been switched off due to difficulties with its editorial management. Please accept our apology for any possible inconvenience. We hope, bugs and interface management difficulties will be sorted soon.

• LIAS: A Global Information System for Lichenized and Non-Lichenized Ascomycetes

• MELnet: Melastomataceae.Net

• Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database

• The operational menu of the Catalogue now can be shown in different languages.

• Dataset Qualifiers have been introduced on Database Details and Species Details page.

• Number of species for each taxon in the Catalogue can be found in the Taxonomic Tree.

• Names of supplier databases are visible with each taxon in the Taxonomic Tree.

• Users now can leave a feedback for data providers and editors with each taxon in the tree.

• Thumbnail images are shown with kingdoms and phyla in the Tree.

• Map of a species distribution is shown on the species page where distribution data are in an appropriate state.

The present version of the interface contains two bugs: statistics and credits are not displayed correctly in the tree. Interface software does not provide coordination between titles in different languages. Thus, titles in other languages than English are corrupted. Please accept our apology for any possible inconvenience. Bugs will be fixed in nearest future.

• GCC: Global Compositae Checklist

• SysMyr: Systematic Myriapod Database

The Catalogue of Life Around the Year still operates with user interface 1.6. Please accept our apology for any possible inconvenience.

• LepIndex provides a new version of synonymised taxonomic checklist for Lepidoptera. Due to synonymisation, total number of provisionally accepted species has been reduced from 242,993 to 143,130. This also caused reduction in Catalogue of Life species number for 1.3M.

• ChenoBase: World Species List of Chenopodiaceae

• CilCat: The World Ciliate Catalog

• EbenaBase: World Species List of Ebenaceae

• Umbellifers: World Umbellifer Database

• WoRMS Hydrozoa: World Hydrozoa Database

• AnnonBase: World Species List of Annonaceae

• ELPT: Early Land Plants Today (liverworts and hornworts)

• FishBase (2nd update in a year)

• FWCrabs: Neotropical Freshwater Crabs Catalogue

• GCC: Global Compositae Checklist

• Odonata: Global Species Database Odonata

• Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database (2nd update in a year)

• Tineidae NHM: Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae (Lepidoptera)

• TITAN: Cerambycidae database

• WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

• ZOBODAT Vespoidea: Zoological-Botanical Database (Vespoidea)

• ITIS database has been split for ITIS Global (with global checklists) and ITIS Regional (with New World checklists of various dates, completeness and geographical coverage)

• Two WoRMS databases, Brachiopoda World Database and Phoronida World Database, are credited separately now

• WoRMS Brachyura: World List of Marine Brachyura

• WoRMS Echinoidea: World Echinoidea Database

• WoRMS Holothuroidea: World List of Holothuroidea

• WoRMS Leptostraca: World Leptostraca Database

• WoRMS Polycystina: World List of Polycystina

• WoRMS Scaphopoda: World List of Scaphopoda

• WoRMS Tanaidacea: World List of Tanaidacea

• WoRMS Asteroidea: World Asteroidea Database

• WoRMS Bochusacea: World List of Bochusacea

• WoRMS Brachiopoda: World Brachiopoda Database

• WoRMS Brachypoda: World List of Brachypoda

• WoRMS Bryozoa: World Marine Bryozoa Database

• WoRMS Cumacea: World Cumacea Database

• WoRMS Isopoda: World List of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans

• WoRMS Mystacocarida: World List of Mystacocarida

• WoRMS Nemertea: World List of Nemertea

• WoRMS Oligochaeta: World List of Marine Oligochaeta

• WoRMS Ophiuroidea: World Ophiuroidea Database

• WoRMS Phoronida: World Phoronida Database

• WoRMS Polychaeta: World Polychaeta Database

• WoRMS Porifera: World Porifera Database

• WoRMS Proseriata and Kalyptorhynchia: World database of Proseriata & Kalyptorhynchia

• WoRMS Remipedia: World Remipedia Database

• WoRMS Tantulocarida: World List of Tantulocarida

• WoRMS Thermosbaenacea: World List of Thermosbaenacea

• WoRMS Xenoturbellida

• Global Strepsiptera Database by J. Kathirithamby.

• 3i Cicadellinae,

• 3i Typhlocybinae,

• BdelloideaBase (former CunaxidBase; new family Bdellidae has been added),

• BlattodeaSF (trial upload),

• CIPA,

• Conifer Database (new release),

• COOL,

• FLOW,

• Nomen.eumycetozoa.com,

• Psyl'list,

• World Gracillariidae.

The CoL assembly process continues to be in transition from "old" to "new" base schema and data processing software. Due to these major changes, some data may appear in a raw form or even not be displayed in present interface version. We apologize for any possible inconvenience.

• MELnet: Melastomataceae.Net database by S.S. Renner & al.

• Animalia - Arthropoda - Maxillopoda - Calanoida - family Aetideidae

• Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - order Mecoptera

• Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Coleoptera - families Bostrichidae, Dytiscidae, Histeridae & Hydraenidae

• FishBase,

• LIAS,

• Scarabs,

• Conifer Database (additional references),

• SpmWeb,

• ITIS (superfamily Buprestoidea and family Tetratomidae from Coleoptera)

• Accepted names and synonyms passed additional cleanings in the database

• 3i Cicadellinae by D. Takiya & D. Dmitriev

• 3i Typhlocybinae by D. Dmitriev

• Embioptera Species File Online (ESF) by M. Maehr

• Membracoidea of the World Database (MOWD) by S. McKamey

• Spider Mites Web (SpmWeb) by A. Migeon & F. Dorkeld

• WoRMS Asteroidea by C.L. Mah

• WoRMS Bochusacea by G.A. Boxshall

• WoRMS Brachypoda by G.A. Boxshall

• WoRMS Isopoda by M. Schotte, C.B. Boyko, N.L. Bruce, G.C.B. Poore, S. Taiti, G.D.F. Wilson (eds)

• WoRMS Mystacocarida by G.A. Boxshall

• WoRMS Nemertea by J.L. Norenburg

• WoRMS Polychaeta by G. Read & K. Fauchald

• WoRMS Remipedia by S. Koenemann, M. Hoenemann & T. Stemme (eds)

• WoRMS Tantulocarida (families Basipodellidae, Deoterthridae, Doryphallophoridae, Microdajidae) by G.A. Boxshall

• WoRMS Thermosbaenacea by G. Poore

• ITIS phylum Sipuncula replaces data previously provided by URMO.

• Animalia - Arthropoda - Maxillopoda - Calanoida - family Aetideidae (World checklist)

• Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Coleoptera - family Sphaeriusidae

• Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Coleoptera - Cucujoidea - family Corylophidae (N. American checklist)

• Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionoidea - families Mycetophagidae & Tetratomidae (N. American checklists)

• Animalia - Chordata - Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae - species Vulpes vulpes

ILDIS common names records have been atomized by names, languages and countries of usage.

• CunaxidBase: Family Cunaxidae Database by J. den Heyer.

• LIAS: A Global Information System for Lichenized and Non-Lichenized Ascomycetes by G. Rambold as the lead editor (LIAS database replaces the lichen taxa previously provided by Species Fungorum).

• WoRMS Bryozoa: World Marine Bryozoa Database by P. Bock & D. Gordon (WoRMS Bryozoa replaces the bryozoan taxa previously provided by ITIS).

• Lacistemataceae Holistic Database

• SalticidDB

• World Scarabaeidae Database

• WTaxa

• Aljos Farjon (Conifer Database) contributed over 4,000 new Conifer common names in 20 languages as a result of his 4D4Life pilot project.

• Paul Schoolmeesters (Scarabs database) contributed 11,720 new species from the family Melolonthidae as a result of his 4D4Life pilot project.

A full list of citations for the contributing databases, using the recommended style, is now available from the how to cite page at www.catalogueoflife.org/col/info/cite. These may be used for copying & pasting such citations.

• Aphid Species File,

• Blattodea Species File,

• Conifer Database,

• Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae,

• Orthoptera Species File,

• Phasmida Species File,

• Plecoptera Species File,

• Mantodea Species File

• Missing order names in some ITIS sectors returned back.

• 175 ITIS family names have been misplaced in superfamily field in AC10. Corrected in this version.

• 52,654 empty infraspecific marker values caused the problem with species and infraspecific taxa statistics in AC10. Problem fixed in this version.

• 33,017 missing common names have been returned back to the database.

• Position of the family Poaceae in the classification have been corrected.

• Redundant phylum name Hepatophyta has been deleted. All liverworts species are placed in the phylum Marchantiophyta.

• Few duplications in species authorstrings have been fixed.

• Phylum name "Ectoprocta" has been changed to "Bryozoa" in response to request from Dennis Gordon (22 July 2010)