Fungal Databases, Nomenclature & Species Banks
MycoBank usage is constantly growing and we are happy to announce that we will soon release a new version of our website with a number of improvements. One of the them will be the a new option to deposit new names in batch. Stay tuned as it should arrive in January 2017.
MycoBank is owned by the International Mycological Association and is an on-line database aimed as a service to the mycological and scientific community by documenting mycological nomenclatural novelties (new names and combinations) and associated data, for example descriptions and illustrations. Pairwise sequence alignments and polyphasic identifications of fungi and yeasts against curated references databases are proposed. More information here. An Excel version of the list of taxa present in MycoBank (export date: 9th of May 2016) can be downloaded here.
1. Vincent Robert, Duong Vu, Ammar Ben Hadj Amor, Nathalie van de Wiele, Carlo Brouwer, Bernard Jabas, Szaniszlo Szoke, Ahmed Dridi, Maher Triki, Samy ben Daoud, Oussema Chouchen, Lea Vaas, Arthur de Cock, Joost A. Stalpers, Dora Stalpers, Gerard J.M. Verkley, Marizeth Groenewald, Felipe Borges dos Santos, Gerrit Stegehuis, Wei Li, Linhuan Wu, Run Zhang, Juncai Ma, Miaomiao Zhou, Sergio Pérez Gorjón, Lily Eurwilaichitr, Supawadee Ingsriswang, Karen Hansen, Conrad Schoch, Barbara Robbertse, Laszlo Irinyi, Wieland Meyer, Gianluigi Cardinali, David L. Hawksworth, John W. Taylor, and Pedro W. Crous. 2013. MycoBank gearing up for new horizons. IMA Fungus · volume 4 · no 2: 371–379 2. P.W. Crous, W. Gams, J.A. Stalpers, V. Robert and G. Stegehuis. 2004. MycoBank: an online initiative to launch mycology into the 21st century. Studies in Mycology 50: 19–22 3. V. Robert, G. Stegehuis and J. Stalpers. 2005. The MycoBank engine and related databases. http://www.mycobank.org
MycoBank is an on-line database aimed as a service to the mycological and scientific society by documenting mycological nomenclatural novelties (new names and combinations) and associated data, for example descriptions and illustrations. The nomenclatural novelties will each be allocated a unique MycoBank number that can be cited in the publication where the nomenclatural novelty is introduced. These numbers will also be used by the nomenclatural database Index Fungorum. Nomenclatural experts will be available to check the validity, legitimacy and linguistic correctness of the proposed names in order to avoid nomenclatural errors; however, no censorship whatsoever, (nomenclatural or taxonomic) will be exerted by MycoBank. Deposited names will remain -when desired- strictly confidential until after publication, and will then be accessible through MycoBank, Index Fungorum, GBIF and other international biodiversity initiatives, where they will further be linked to other databases to realise a species bank that eventually will link all databases of life. MycoBank will (when applicable) provide onward links to other databases containing, for example, living cultures, DNA data, reference specimens and pleomorphic names linked to the same holomorph. Authors intending to publish nomenclatural novelties are encouraged to contribute to this new initiative.