| URL: | https://nmdc.cn/fungalnames |
| Full name: | Fungal Names |
| Description: | Fungal Names, a global data repository of fungal taxonomy, is established by the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The repository aims at providing integrated services on Fungi and fungus-like organisms involving fungal name registration, species identification, specimen preservation, taxonomists overview and related information query, statistics or data sharing for people worked with or interested in mycology. |
| Year founded: | 2023 |
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| Country/Region: | China |
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| University/Institution: | Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
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| Country/Region: | China |
| Contact name (PI/Team): | Ke Wang |
| Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): | fungalname@im.ac.cn |
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Fungal names: a comprehensive nomenclatural repository and knowledge base for fungal taxonomy. [PMID: 36271801]
Fungal taxonomy is a complex and rapidly changing subject, which makes proper naming of fungi challenging for taxonomists. A registration platform with a standardized and information-integrated database is a powerful tool for efficient research on fungal taxonomy. Fungal Names (FN, https://nmdc.cn/fungalnames/; launched in 2011) is one of the three official fungal nomenclatural repositories authorized by the International Nomenclature Committee for Fungi (NCF). Currently, FN includes >567 000 taxon names from >10 000 related journals and books published since 1596 and covers >147 000 collection records of type specimens/illustrations from >5000 preserving agencies. FN is also a knowledge base that integrates nomenclature information with specimens, culture collections and herbaria/fungaria, publications and taxonomists, and represents a summary of the history and recent advances in fungal taxonomy. Published fungal names are categorized based on well-accepted nomenclature rules and can be readily searched with different keywords and strategies. In combination with a standardized name checking tool and a sequence alignment-based identification package, FN makes the registration and typification of nomenclatural novelties of fungi convenient and accurate. |