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

[Stephen Thorpe]

yeah, yeah, at least we don't smoke our taxa!!! :)
(except for fish, and in a different way!)




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From: Jim Croft <jim.croft at gmail.com>
To: Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>
Cc: Tony.Rees at csiro.au; taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Sent: Tue, 3 August, 2010 5:48:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] How far are we to completing a world genus/specieslisting 
for animals

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!