Biodiversity Information Projects of the World

Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Project Website

http://www.obis.org.au/irmng/

Project Description

The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG) is a project of OBIS Australia designed to assist in the provision of marine species data to OBIS, by permitting the discrimination of marine from nonmarine (and extant from fossil) species records on the basis of the genus name portion of their scientific name (normally, genus + species, or genus + species + infraspecies if applicable). The aim of the project is to (a) assemble as complete a list as possible of the estimated 150,000 extant and 50,000 fossil generic names in current use, plus their possible further 200,000 synonyms, and (b) flag as many of these as is possible with their marine/nonmarine, and extant/fossil, status. Relevant species lists are also being attached to the "correct" instances of genus names as available.

Contact

Tony Rees
Project Manager
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Australia

Project Type

Data Aggregator

Project Language

English

Project Start Date

01-Aug-2006

Key Inputs

Initial key data sources: Systema Naturae 2000 / Taxonomicon genera list, Catalogue of Life (2006 version) genera and species list, Index Nominum Genericorum genera list, Aphia (VLIZ) taxon lists including European Register of Marine Species, Nomenclator Zoologicus genera list, + many more; OBIS Australia (funding).

Key Infrastructure

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Key Technologies

Currently based on Oracle 10 RDBMS and Oracle PL/SQL for web queries and presentation, also TAXAMATCH fuzzy matching algorithm for taxon names

Key Processes

Taxonomic data (name) aggregation including first-pass data cleaning and normalization, followed by allocation of relevant habitat and extant/fossil flags (ongoing process).

Geographic Scope

Global - Global

Taxonomic Scope

Life - All life from Archaea and Bacteria to higher plants and animals, extant and fossil, also viruses as covered in the 2006 Catalogue of Life.

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