[Taxacom] How far are we to completing a world genus/specieslisting for animals

[Jim Croft]

yeah, but... it is an animal phylum and zoologists and the ICZN are
implicated...

jim

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Stephen Thorpe
<stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz> wrote:
> OK, a quick look at a random small phylum (Onychophora,
> http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/publications/other/species-numbers/2009/04-02-groups-invertebrates.html#onychophora)
>  in Chapman, reveals a 70-200 World Described/
> Accepted species. This is an alarmingly wide range for such a small phylum!