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The box below will allow you to check one or multiple family, genus, or species names, for their current status on the last updated copy of the Register as held at CMAR.
For families and genera, you can enter a single name, or a set of names, comma separated, in the box above for checking:
Example (families): Agavaceae,Agostocarididae,Ailoscolecidae or Agavaceae, Agostocarididae, Ailoscolecidae
Example (genera): Ficus,Homo,Physeter,Tyrannosaurus or Ficus, Homo, Physeter, Tyrannosaurus
Genus names can also be entered on separate lines, without commas, as follows:
Ficus
Homo
Physeter
Tyrannosaurus
To include genus authorities for checking, in the multi-line format they can simply be appended, e.g. as follows:
Ficus Röding, 1798
Homo Linnaeus, 1758
Physeter Linnaeus, 1758
Tyrannosaurus Osborn, 1905
In the single-line format (only) they must be supplied with two trailing slashes, i.e. as follows:
Ficus Röding, 1798//
(otherwise any commas will be interpreted as separators between successive supplied genera).
For species checking, please enter in one of the following formats:
- genus + species, example "Homo sapiens"
- genus + species + authority, example "Homo sapiens L." or "Homo sapiens Linnaeus" or "Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758"
Multiple lines are supported for multiple species if desired, format is as per genera input described above (with or without authorities).
The following "wildcard" type searches are also supported (single line only):
- genus initial + species, example "H. sapiens" (or "H.sapiens")
- genus initial + species + authority, example "H. sapiens L." (or "H.sapiens L.")
- To find any genus+species with a desired specific epithet, you can enter the wildcard "%" followed by a full stop, then the species, example "%. sapiens" (or "%.sapiens")
Note, infraspecies cannot be processed at the present time (any trinomial will be considered to be part of the authority)
A next-generation "fuzzy match" algorithm will also retrieve any near matches to genus and/or genus+species if a single genus and/or species name is entered, which is helpful for checking possible misspellings.
NB, white space after the commas is ignored, also capitalization is optional i.e. Fucus and fucus are both accepted.
Use of "*" as a trailing wildcard is permitted on family and genus, e.g. [Family]: Aga* will find families Agalmatidae, Agalmidae, Agamidae, Agaonidae and so on.
Character input limit is 32,767 or around 2,500 genus names / 1,200 species names (without authorities) in any one batch. Minimum number of characters accepted is 3 (or 2 plus wildcard symbol).
Please report any issues with this interface or IRMNG data content to Tony.Rees@csiro.au.
Click here to see a summary table of recent IRMNG content (last updated 23 December 2009).
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