Welcome to MycoBank
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,
with which MycoBank is associated and will also serve as Life Science
Identifiers (LSIDs).
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.
Tell us
If you come across interesting websites related to fungal taxonomy and nomenclature,
let us know and we'll update the list of links (email us).
This new version of the website was released a few weeks ago. We hope that it will
be even more easy to search or deposit information. Let us know your opinion (email
us).
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Specialized Databases
and Identification
New on MycoBank
10 last released items
Dothidea rhuina
Schweinitz
7/22/2008 9:50:01 PM |
Naemaspora rufa
Berkeley & M.A. Curtis
7/18/2008 7:42:05 PM |
Eustegia ilicis var. hederae
J. Kickx f.
7/17/2008 7:31:56 PM |
Papillaria ventricosa
J. Kickx f.
7/17/2008 6:45:57 PM |
Dothidea saligna
(Ehrhart ex Persoon) J. Kickx f.
7/17/2008 5:23:08 PM |
Sporidesmium fungorum
(Fries) Berkeley
7/14/2008 7:27:34 PM |
Phytophthora parsiana
Mostowfizadeh, Cooke & Banihashemi
7/11/2008 8:29:51 AM |
Hemileccinum impolitum
(Fries) Sutara
7/9/2008 12:04:33 PM |
Hemileccinum depilatum
(Redeuilh) Sutara
7/9/2008 12:04:31 PM |
Hemileccinum
Sutara
7/9/2008 12:04:28 PM |
Searching MycoBank
For the moment 2 search engines are available from the MycoBank website.
The first one permits to search for fungal names (at any rank level),
the authority or the MycoBank unique number. Bring
me there.
The second is dedicated to bibliographic
queries related to fungal name's publications. Bring
me there.
To view a movie on the how to perform
queries on the MycoBank website have a look here.
It's also possible to search the BioloMICS
based databases of the Yeasts,
Penicillium, Phaeoacremonium, Russula and Mycosphaerella
genera using the direct link to the CBS-MycoBank website. Online polyphasic
identifications are also possible using the BioloMICS software at Yeasts,
Penicillium, Phaeoacremonium, Russula or Mycosphaerella.
Registration of user's data
MycoBank users willing to deposit their data will have to register.
We need to be able to contact the depositor for specific information
(e.g. MycoBank number, possible points of attention regarding the name,
actual publication, etc), and we also want to avoid fake entries.
To register for the first time follow the steps below (see movie on how to register,
here):
1. Enter your email address (see textbox above), click on the "create profile"
button to receive a provisional password by email (this is to make
sure that the provided email is real and that you are the person
that can open the given email).
3. Read your email and go to the Register
menu again. Enter your email and password (obtained by email). Click
on the "Login" button and access the registration profile
form where personal information will have to be entered. Change the
password and personalize it. One can also register to the Fungal names
warning system that will soon be launched. Click on the "Save
profile" button. You will then be registered and ready to add
new fungal names and related data to MycoBank.
Registration
of new name and data to MycoBank
The registration of a new name to MycoBank is performed in several steps, depending
on the items to be submitted.
Prepare all your data before starting the registration process. This
includes type strain information (strain #, origin, substrate, sequences,
...), species related data like Latin description, anamorph-teleomorph
connections, synonymy, bibliographic information, PDF or MS-Word original
manuscript, ...
The steps are:
1. Introduction of the new name, the hierarchy and the authority
2. Selection of the basionym (optional)
3. Definition of the morphic status and anamorph-teleomorph connections (optional)
4. Status of the name and synonymy (optional)
5. Bibliographic information related to the original publication
of the new name
6. Description in Latin and other languages (preferably english)
7. Type strain/specimen information
8. Scientific data and other information links can be defined.
Original manuscript can be uploaded (optional)
9. Review of the newly deposited name by the MycoBank curators
and sending of the unique MycoBank number to the depositor. The
new name will be available from the MycoBank website as soon as
the original paper has been accepted for publication
Have a look at the movie
to see how it works.
Suggest modification(s) for existing
MycoBank records
To suggest modification(s) of one
of the existing names available from the MycoBank database, use the
search engine and click on the "Update MB# XXXXXX with your opinion/data" button.
Follow the procedure/wizard. A new record associated with the previous one will be added.
The depositor of such record could delete it later on as well.