PhycoBank
PhycoBank is the registration system for nomenclatural acts (new names, new combinations and types) of algae. Algae are a very diverse group of organisms and are covered by the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants, ICN (Turland & al. 2018). PhycoBank will serve both the scientific phycological community and the international open access biodiversity information infrastructures. For botanical registration initiatives within the framework of ICN, please see Barkworth et al. (2016a, b).
PhycoBank Data Portal: This Data Portal will constitute the primary registration interface for PhycoBank. To date, more than 5,000 nomenclatural acts can be searched by taxonomic keywords (higher taxa), genus, scientific name, and author.
Nomenclatural authors are standardised according to the community standards.
PhycoBank development: PhycoBank supports the registration of new names and nomenclatural acts submitted directly by nomenclatural authors or automatically via cooperating publishers. Each nomenclatural act will has a unique PhycoBank registration number automatically linking to the corresponding metadata in human- and machine-readable formats. In addition to the query for taxon names, searches on registration date, type of act, and nomenclatural type is provided. Feedback mechanisms, annotations, and appropriate treatments of ambiregnal taxa are also incorporated. Interoperability with the global names infrastructure will be achieved via standardized web services.
PhycoBank uses the Platform for Cybertaxonomy and its underlying Common Data Model (CDM).
For authors: If you are an author of new names, new combinations or new nomenclatural types (including epitypes) of algae, please contact the project staff to get your registration IDs and more information on PhycoBank
E-mail contact: curation@phycobank.org
Starting self-registration (authors of scientific names get their account here)
User interface for voluntary data entry (start the data entry here)
Frequently asked questions:
User guide (under construction)
How to cite PhycoBank: PhycoBank: Registration of Nomenclatural Acts of Algae. Available from https://phycobank.org, accessed [DATE].
Who is publishing new algal names, recognised in PhycoBank: Personal names, standard forms, identifiers (under construction)
Who is behind PhycoBank?
Wolf-Henning Kusber (PhycoBank Phycologist, Coordinator and Curator)
Nélida Abarca (Curator for Algae at B)
Andreas Müller (Information scientist, EDIT platform, Center for Biodiversity Informatics and Collection Data Integration)
Katja Luther (Information scientist, EDIT platform, PhycoBank portal, Center for Biodiversity Informatics and Collection Data Integration)
Anton Güntsch (PhycoBank PI, Director Center for Biodiversity Informatics and Collection Data Integration)
Jonas Zimmermann (PhycoBank PI since April 2019, Head, Diatom Research Group)
Regine Jahn (PhycoBank Project PI, PhycoBank PI 2017-March 2019)
Walter G. Berendsohn (PhycoBank Project PI)
Heba Mohamad (PhycoBank Student Researcher)
Andreas Kohlbecker (PhycoBank Information Scientist until March 2022)
Phycobank was developed by the BGBM Berlin with funding from the German Research Foundation (JA 874/8-1, 2016-2019)
References:
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