The document discusses the IRMNG (Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera) data assembly project, which aims to create a hierarchical classification of all life, both extant and fossil, to at least the genus level. It provides an overview of the goals and structure of IRMNG, which compiles name and taxonomic data from various sources into a single, searchable system. IRMNG currently contains over 450,000 genus records and aims to fill gaps, resolve inconsistencies between sources, and serve as a comprehensive yet interim reference for the names and classification of all organisms.

1. Towards a Hierarchical Classification of All Life – the IRMNG data assembly project Tony Rees – CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Australia October 2011

2. Why a hierarchical classification? Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life

5. What should “the system” ideally hold? – something like… Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life (etc.)

17. Perseverance produces the following (subset of genus table, 453k names as at Oct 2011): Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life

18. A glimpse of the IRMNG “master genus” table (currently 452,827 records) Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life

19. A glimpse of the IRMNG “master genus” table (currently 452,827 records) Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life (Mabberley plant names list)

20. Detail showing example source/s used Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life

23. Other services / products e.g. full hierarchical lists Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life however with caveat: some / many genera may still be classified only at higher level (e.g. “Mammalia – unallocated”) at this time (more work to do).

24. Check batches of entered names Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life (1,406 genus names…)

25. Check batches of entered names Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life (start of IRMNG search result)

26. Check batches of entered names Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life

27. Check batches of entered names Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life ?

28. Query by taxon name (correctly spelled or misspelled) Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life

30. Linking names with literature Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life

32. Expanded citation info in IRMNG - example Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life

33. Expanded citation info in IRMNG - example Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life

34. Expanded citation info in IRMNG - example Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life

36. IRMNG content – recent missing genera… Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life

37. IRMNG content – genus names published by year, 1995-current (as at Oct 2011), excluding virus names (which are undated) Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life (NB could disaggregate further as desired, e.g. by detailed tax. group, or extant vs. fossil…) … also would expect a small number of residual names missed for ostensibly “complete” years presumed missing names

38. IRMNG 2011 content cf. Cat. of Life 2011 Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life Note, Chapman, 2009 estimates c.1.9m described extant species (see earlier slide) On that basis, CoL has 70% of valid extant species names, maybe 70% of valid extant genera (with subset of genus-level synonyms) IRMNG is missing est. 10k genera from 2004-2011 (from last slide), maybe further 2-3% overall (say 10k-15k), “complete” list would thus be ~475k at this time (increasing at ~2k/year). Cat. of Life - 2011 edition % with auth's IRMNG – Oct 2011 - extant + fossil % with auth's IRMNG – Oct 2011 - fossil only Kingdoms 8 7 0 Phyla 111 153 12 Classes 288 509 64 Orders 1,233 2,645 715 Families 8,071 0% 19,639 22.1% 6,542 Subfamilies Genera 178,515 0% 452,848 97.1% 90,278 Subgenera Species (valid) 1,347,224 ~100% 1,020,519 ~100% 16,792 Species (synonyms) 895,441 ~100% 440,738 ~100% 100

42. Thank you Thanks to: - OBIS, GBIF and Atlas of Living Australia for financial support, numerous data providers for data - CSIRO for salary and in-kind support, 2006-present - D. Patterson / MBL / NSF (this trip funding + hosting) Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life Contact details Phone: +61 3 6232 5318 Email: Tony.Rees@csiro.au Web: www.cmar.csiro.au/datacentre/

43. Supplementary slides Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life

45. New names: potential discovery paths Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life new virus names new prokaryote names new botanical names – algae & fungi (except fossils) new botanical names – bryophytes through angiosperms (except fossils) new zoological names publication discovery official registers taxon-specific DB’s integrated DB’s “ all names” Botany Zoology Newly published names – primary literature (print, electronic) ICTV Viruses DB LPSN (Prokaryote names) ICBN Decisions ICZN Decisions Journal TOC’s, RSS feeds, text mining Abstracting services Subject bibliographies Reviews, secondary literature Zoological Record ION (Index of Organism Names) ChecklistBank GNI GNUB ZooBank? Catalogue of Life annual editions ITIS NCBI Taxonomy WoRMS etc. CyanoDB Index Fungorum MycoBank AlgaeBase Plant GSD’s PaleoDB Animal GSD’s other compilations e.g. regional lists, Wikispecies, Wikipedia, more… IRMNG

46. New names: potential discovery paths Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life new virus names new prokaryote names new botanical names – algae & fungi (except fossils) new botanical names – bryophytes through angiosperms (except fossils) new zoological names publication discovery official registers taxon-specific DB’s integrated DB’s “ all names” Botany Zoology Newly published names – primary literature (print, electronic) ICTV Viruses DB LPSN (Prokaryote names) ICBN Decisions ICZN Decisions Journal TOC’s, RSS feeds, text mining Abstracting services Subject bibliographies Reviews, secondary literature Zoological Record ION (Index of Organism Names) ChecklistBank GNI GNUB ZooBank? Catalogue of Life annual editions ITIS NCBI Taxonomy WoRMS etc. CyanoDB Index Fungorum MycoBank AlgaeBase Plant GSD’s PaleoDB Animal GSD’s other compilations e.g. regional lists, Wikispecies, Wikipedia, more… IRMNG Lots of manual effort

47. New names: potential discovery paths Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life new virus names new prokaryote names new botanical names – algae & fungi (except fossils) new botanical names – bryophytes through angiosperms (except fossils) new zoological names publication discovery official registers taxon-specific DB’s integrated DB’s “ all names” Botany Zoology Newly published names – primary literature (print, electronic) ICTV Viruses DB LPSN (Prokaryote names) ICBN Decisions ICZN Decisions Journal TOC’s, RSS feeds, text mining Abstracting services Subject bibliographies Reviews, secondary literature Zoological Record ION (Index of Organism Names) ChecklistBank GNI GNUB ZooBank? Catalogue of Life annual editions ITIS NCBI Taxonomy WoRMS etc. CyanoDB Index Fungorum MycoBank AlgaeBase Plant GSD’s PaleoDB Animal GSD’s other compilations e.g. regional lists, Wikispecies, Wikipedia, more… IRMNG Lots of automated feeds + expert curation

48. New names: potential discovery paths Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life new virus names new prokaryote names new botanical names – algae & fungi (except fossils) new botanical names – bryophytes through angiosperms (except fossils) new zoological names publication discovery official registers taxon-specific DB’s integrated DB’s “ all names” Botany Zoology Newly published names – primary literature (print, electronic) ICTV Viruses DB LPSN (Prokaryote names) ICBN Decisions ICZN Decisions Journal TOC’s, RSS feeds, text mining Abstracting services Subject bibliographies Reviews, secondary literature Zoological Record ION (Index of Organism Names) ChecklistBank GNI GNUB ZooBank? Catalogue of Life annual editions ITIS NCBI Taxonomy WoRMS etc. CyanoDB Index Fungorum MycoBank AlgaeBase Plant GSD’s PaleoDB Animal GSD’s other compilations e.g. regional lists, Wikispecies, Wikipedia, more… IRMNG Lots of automated feeds + expert curation Lots of useful services

49. How many taxa? Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life valid extant + fossil taxa (est.) How many species? estimates according to Chapman, 2009 (valid, extant taxa only); “others” comprise c. 54k protists, 10k prokaryotes, 2k viruses NB inverts. includes “~1,000,000” for Insects – probably +/- 60k Fossil species – no published estimates – maybe 500k names, 300k valid 2+ million ~250k ~10k ~2k Kingdoms (5/6/7/8) ~400 ~140 Phyla Classes Orders Families Genera Species

50. Relevant information domain: all life Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life PROTISTS Fig. i-1 in Margulis & Schwartz, 1998

51. How many kingdoms… Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life PROTISTS Fig. i-1 in Margulis & Schwartz, 1998 7 kingdoms (5 in Margulis & Schwartz, 8 in Cat. of Life…): Animals, Fungi, Plants : 3 kingdoms Protists : 1 (or 2 if Stramenopiles [Heterokonts] recognized, = Cavalier-Smith’s Kingdom “Chromista”) Bacteria + Archaea : 2 (=1 in Margulis & Schwartz) Viruses : 1 (not in Margulis & Schwartz)

52. Nomenclature governed by four separate Codes , i.e. Zoological, Botanical, Bacteriological, Viruses Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life PROTISTS Zoo. Code Bact. Code Bot. Code Vir. Code: viruses (not shown) Fig. i-1 in Margulis & Schwartz, 1998

54. Parker, 1982 content example Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life

55. Benton, 1993 content example Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life

56. Rees TAXAMATCH fuzzy matching poster (start) Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life

57. Schematic of TAXAMATCH operation Tony Rees: Hierarchical Classification of All Life