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The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG) is a project of OBIS Australia designed to assist in the provision of marine species data to OBIS, by permitting the discrimination of marine from nonmarine (and extant from fossil) species records on the basis of the genus name portion of their scientific name (normally, genus + species, or genus + species + infraspecies if applicable). The aim of the project is to (a) assemble as complete a list as possible of the estimated 150,000 extant and 50,000 fossil generic names in current use, and (b) flag as many of these as is possible with their marine/nonmarine, and extant/fossil, status.
At time of last update (September 2007) work is proceeding on both of these objectives concurrently. Approximately 70% of valid genus names have already been assembled drawing on a variety of resources, and around one half of these have had their relevant status flags added. Work is proceeding over the remainder of 2006-7 to extend this coverage so far as is practicable.
Contributors to this project to date include Tony Rees (CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research), Nicolas Bailly and Deng Palomares (SeaLifeBase project), Sheila Brands (Systema Naturae 2000 / Taxonomicon project), Dennis Gordon and Don Robertson (NIWA, New Zealand), Gary Poore, Robin Wilson and Ely Wallis (Museum Victoria), Helen Morgan and Anna Povey (Bushways Australia), Edward Vanden Berghe (Flanders marine Institute), and Ellen Farr (Smithsonian Institution). For additional status information including further offers of potential assistance, please contact Tony.Rees@csiro.au.
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Last modified 22-09-2007